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Grant Recipient

Crystal Vance Guerra

Craft Archive Fellowship
,
2025

Altar Making: A Critical Craft in Migrant Communities

This project investigates Mexican altar making as a diasporic craft tradition and living archive, documenting how migrants utilize this sacred practice to assert their presence, preserve memory, and resist erasure through oral histories, community archives, and visual storytelling.

Organization Background

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Location

Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

MEDIUM

MATERIAL EXPLORATION

Grant amount

$5,000

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