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Edith Mendez (La Friducha) is a Chicana artist and educator based in Berwyn, IL.
She is well-known for her vibrant and nostalgic works featuring a range of hand drawn and digital drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Her work focuses on the exploration of defining her identity–continually in the process of finding her voice and place in the world as a Chicana. Through memories, experiences and personal works inspired by her Mexican-American heritage, she analyzes authenticity and the hybridity within cultural traditions, gender, and spirituality.
ABOUT: About
Since graduating in 2020, Edith has been working as a full-time high school educator at her alma mater, Morton West High School. She has collaborated on two cultural community events with the school’s Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica and Biliteracy Cultural Coaches. They first worked together on the “Dia de los Muertos” (2021) community event which featured her students’ work in the Ofrenda Gallery Walk. Then during Spring 2022, she was commissioned to paint a backdrop for the “Dear Mija” Mother-Daughter Book Club.
Edith has also been featured as a panelist and teaching artist at Morton West High School’s “First Generation Teacher Panel”(2021) event and the “Women Empowerment” (2022) event where she hosted a bilingual embroidery session.
She is currently working on a series of sculptural works as a member of the artist collective, Real Fake Artists, Inc. They first exhibited “The Stuff is Fake, the Need is Real” in 2019 as a pop-up show which invited their fellow students to imagine an Art and Exhibition Hall that prioritized their welfare as much as other colleges on the campus do.
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