Raven Juarez
Tribe: Blackfeet
Based In: Seattle, WA
Email: ravenjuarezart@gmail.com
Social Media: @raven_inthetrees
Website: ravenjuarez.com
About the Art
I use my work to talk to myself, to untangle intangible ideas, and find truth in experiences that once left me feeling confused, or unseen, or out of place. The stories I tell myself, the memories I relive, the dreams I work back into reality, have become my identity. As a mixed-race young woman of indigenous heritage in America today, feeling truth in my identity is a sacred gift to myself. I believe in the unifying power of symbolic storytelling, and by offering vulnerable and intimate perspectives of my own experience, I hope to speak to the softest and buried truths of my audiences. In words unspoken, my stories illuminate the intrinsic connections we share as co-inhabitants of the physical world and the ties between the private worlds we each hold within.
About the Artist
Born and based in Seattle, Raven Juarez is a contemporary Native artist, teacher, and presenter. Juarez attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY and spent a year abroad in Florence, Italy, to study painting, drawing, printmaking as well as Italian art and film history. She graduated in 2013 with a BA in the liberal arts, with concentrations in Child Psychology/Development and Visual Arts.
