Ixchel (mixed indigenous, primarily Uto-Aztecan/ Uto-Nahuatl) and mixed race (from the Maiza and Eire) is an artist and peace strategist building peaceful, sustainable, and cosmically harmonious multiverses across the time-space continuum.

Her practices incorporate strategies of shapeshifting, indigenous arts-based research, cultural reclamation, consciousness mapping, time travel, intergalactic teleportation, and community based design.  She is the daughter of Rosa Maria and the granddaughter of Flora.

She studies Mayan timekeeping with Daykeeper (Ajq'ij) Xochitl Quetzali and within the lineage of Jose Arguelles; Nahuatl cosmology with Calli Mexica; the traditions of the Wixrarika with Marakame Silvestre Castro; and traditional healing in the lineage of Orlando Gualinga, Quichua.

Ixchel is trained in somatics (Somatica, Hakomi), mindfulness (Kopan Monastery), and community-based research (Columbia and Harvard and MIT). 

She/ We/ They co-founded the art collective Las Imaginistas (USA Artists, Art Place America, Blade of Grass), and is the former founding director of Voces Unidas RGV. She is a 2023/2024 Soros Art Fellow and holds an MFA from Columbia University and an EDM from Harvard (with additional training at the MIT Media Lab).   

Learn more about Ixchel.