Natalia Vigil is the oldest of five sisters and a 7 year old brother. As a proud Chicana born and raised in San Francisco she is inspired by the city she grew up in and by the resiliency of her loved ones and community. She captures these stories and voices in her multigenre writing. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and shows around the Bay Area, including SOMArts, Mission Cultural Center, Intersection for the Arts, National Queer Arts Festival and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College in Creative Writing, but got her start as a poet in first grade with her premiere work entitled “You make me glitter up” in honor of her first grade teacher, Mrs. Kahn. She loves collaborative projects and is proud to be curating Still Here with her bestie in the city she loves por vida. Still Here was part of the National Queer Arts Festival 2014. Curated by Cristina Mitra & Natalia Vigil Still Here stakes a claim to this city, disrupting the assumption that everyone in San Francisco is from somewhere else, and exposes essential narratives about coming out, class and economic disparity, and the meaning of home and family in a “gay mecca.” By sharing their San Francisco stories, these artists add their voices to discourse about San Francisco and remind us that they are steadily “Still Here.”
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:38:03 +0000
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