Ancestral Connections with Katrina Villavicencio
Join Filipina-American artist, designer, and tribal arts practitioner Katrina Villavicencio for this hands-on workshop. This program serves as an opportunity to relearn globalization through an ancestral lens by focusing on the history of ancestral Filipinos, their use of tribal symbols, and their cultural connections to indigenous communities globally. Participants will be invited to choose symbols representing their individual stories—family, career, identity, past, present, and future–and interpret them through their own creations.
At this time, the 2nd floor is only reachable by two flights of stairs; we acknowledge and apologize that this limits access for some.
This program was selected from Hamiltonian Artists open call, which invites artists, organizers, and cultural workers to present professional presentations in our U Street gallery space.
My goal is for participants to relearn globalization from an ancestral lens and to utilize our ancestors’ common artforms, stories, and struggles as a tool to overcome modern-day divisions.
Katrina Villavicencio
About the Facilitator
Katrina Villavicencio is an award-winning artist, creative strategist, graphic designer, and tribal arts practitioner. She is passionate about storytelling through a creative lens, and has been researching and experimenting with indigenous Filipino tribal art for over 10 years. Through her work, she passionately advocates for education and preservation of Philippine ancestral arts. As a multimedia designer, she is an expert at branding, marketing, storytelling, and narrative change with over 12 years of experience in brand development, content strategy, digital and web products, and print production.
Katrina has showcased artwork at group exhibitions, sold prints and artwork at events, and teaches art workshops in the DC area. She’s won over 10 awards for a range of products, topics, and materials in health equity, wellness, and justice spaces. She is an alum of the Re:power Women of Color Leadership Cohort, and a member of the Montgomery Arts Association, the Women’s Caucus for Art DC, the American Institute of Graphic Arts DC. Katrina loves to experiment with different mediums and carries a lifetime of skills in drawing, painting, collage, block printing, papercutting, and ceramics. She believes inclusion and authenticity will change the world.
