An emerging gallery and space that showcases contemporary Indigenous artists and support Indigenous cultural entrepreneurship. Semillistas, through art, will also expand awareness and knowledge around Indigenous culture, showcasing and supporting the diversity in Indigenous cultural arts, while fueling the centuries-long-resistance to colonization, in a way that promotes community healing. 

 Semillistas is rooted in the belief that as Indigenous people, our cultural arts have been a primary method of maintaining our identity, our stories, our lineage, and is a way in which Indigenous people maintained a balanced trade economy. The purpose of this trade economy is not only to ensure that community and individual needs are met, but also to create and strengthen intertribal relations throughout North, Central, South America, and the Pacific and Caribbean Islands.

‘Semillistas,’ the word, acknowledges and honors the sacred and also common aspects of Indigenous ways of life, that are like seeds, “semillas,” for the people. Our seeds hold our stories, our identities, our lineages, and are a primary life-line because they are our foods and our children. The suffix “-istas” acknowledges and honors the warriors that fight for Indigenous Sovereignty, like the Zapatistas in Chiapas.