For Episode 6, my friend, Jake Prendez, joins me to share his story as an artist, activist, and community art gallery owner where he hopes to support marginalized communities through artistic expression.

Jake is a renowned Chicano artist, curator and public speaker, displaying his work in exhibitions around the country.
He creates art with a specific focus on themes relating to Chicana/o and Indigenous culture, activism, social justice, pop culture and satire.

Jake now resides in Seattle and is a host of the Pop up Mercado, lectures around the country, leads the Próxima Generación: Youth Residency Project and is the owner/director of the Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery in White Center.

Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery is a multi-use space in White Center WA, hosting art exhibitions, arts workshops, a gift shop for artists and artisans, and a space for spoken word, music and arts related lectures.  A space for those that find themselves in nepantla - the space in between.

Check them out on Facebook  and follow their Instagram.  Learn more about Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery on their website www.nepantlaculturalarts.org.