Art Brunch | Ashley Delgado | Casual Conversations about Contemporary Art | Season 1 Episode 3

An edited archived video of Art Brunch S1E3 with artist Ashley Delgado.  Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch  Follow us on Twitch to never miss live art content ► www.twitch.tv/thetravelagency Video Version ► https://youtu.be/IoYIbfT-_aU   » See pretty pictures on ig: instagram.com/thetravelagency  » Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjR8GINuvF8ILQOogwqJibA?sub_confirmation=1   Timestamps:  00:00 - Meet Ashley  16:00 - Art Talk   55:00 - 10 questions!  About The Travel Agency: The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.     Ashley's Bio: Ashley is a St. Louis based artist and barista at local coffee bar, Blueprint Coffee, located on Delmar. Over the course of her life Ashley has put great intent in trying to come to understanding and acceptance with every dimension of our journey in becoming ourselves. In this day and age of identity, decolonizing our hearts and institutions, and quest for self love, breaking down barriers is not only an external necessity but an internal one.     Ashley is of Mexican, Indigenous and Hungarian descent, and as a woman of color and one who has lived a life with mental illness these barriers are ones that have hung on every waking thought as she has grown. To not only learn to love ourselves for our growth and beauty but see and accept the other side of that, she desires the courage to delve deeper into taking ownership for our wickedness or shortcomings and creating beauty in the peace that brings.    “To make mistakes, to find out that you are the villain and hero in your story is to know all of you. Making mistakes and having that opportunity to rise above them, the ability to make a choice, is the great gift we have as humans as well as our curse. We never want to entertain the idea that we can become what we hate the most in others. Or that we can be everything we have ever wanted, if we could only see past the lies we tell ourselves.”   Animals and the natural world have been the conduit and inspiration for her method of communicating these ideas and questions. Through illustration she takes these characters and creatures to create a narrative on coming back to ourselves, to the earth and to the question of how to find the truth sometimes hidden in our lives. To make sense of our own stories and the growth needed for how we write them.   #contemporaryart #artnow #liveart