Rafa Tarín is a gender non-conforming queer xicanx self-taught multidisciplinary artist raised in northeast los angeles with deep new mexican/indigenous mexican roots.
Their work explores the cosmology of my ancestors and attempts to bring forward the messages they carry for us today. They are a transformative arts educator working with northern new mexico youth in the disciplines of visual art, puppetry, stiltwalking, poetry and devised physical theatre for the past 19 years.
The beauty and complexity of parenthood is their greatest creative endeavor.