hazel is a brown artist, educator, and community organizer.
2024 Culture & Narrative Fellows Our Fellows
hazel batrezchavez
(they/m)
About
hazel batrezchavez is a brown artist, educator, and community organizer. Their works in textiles, performances, and sculptures are rooted in the politics of survival and the poetics of movement.
batrezchavez’s work has been exhibited at El Paso Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Loom Indigenous Gallery (NM), Southern Exposure (CA), SOMA (MX), Radford Museum of Art (VA), ICOSA Collective (TX), Higher Art Gallery (MI) among many others. batrezchavez received their BFA in Anthropology and Studio Art from Grinnell College and their MFA in Sculpture from the University of New Mexico.
hazel batrezchavez (Stolen Land, b. 1994) lives and works as an artist and educator in Tiwa, Tewa, and Pueblo Territory (Albuquerque, NM). They are a founding member of the fronteristxs Collective and Granadina Co-op.
Medium: Visual Artist
hazel on their project
La Luchadora is a performance that subverts the militarization and fear that undocumented individuals live with every day. By mobilizing the symbolic power that the paletero (popsicle man) has in latinx/Chicanx communities. La Luchadora distributes free paletas and Know Your Rights information printed on napkins. It is grounded in creating a space of agency for individuals by bringing the power of knowledge directly to folks in an accessible and familiar way. My proposal for the Narrative Innovators Lab’s Culture and Narrative Fellowship is to expand my networks in the Southwest Region.
