We welcomed you to a conversation moderated by Joel Garcia, artist and director of Meztli Projects, an organization dedicated to the creative development of Native and Indigenous creatives, and featuring Daisy Echeverri of Yerberia Mayahuel and Caracol Marketplace, and Omeatl of Hunait Tepec, on Saturday, July 27 from 12-3pm at our summer 2024 installation, We Carry the Land, in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard.
Extending offered We Carry the Land as a space to support forms of reciprocity and kinship led by local Indigenous voices, exploring what it means to be a temporary presence on the land.
This conversation centered the decades-long efforts by Indigenous land stewards in Los Angeles to create and nurture land-based projects of self-sustainability, ancestral knowledge transmission, and cultural revitalization guided by a deep connection to the First Peoples of Los Angeles, specifically the Tongva and Tataviam communities.
This program was free and accessible to all.
Daisy Echeverri is a Master Gardener, community-based herbalist, and medicine maker who has been a vital contributor to the garden ecosystem of Los Angeles and lead organizer for one of the longest-running marketplaces centering plant relatives and knowledge.
Omeatl is an artist, land steward, and a lead organizer for projects such Hunait Tepec, the radio program La Voz Del Pueblo (The Peoples Voice) on KQBH 101.5 FM, El Semillero in Boyle Heights, and previously the Zapotepec Agricultural School, a garden oasis in East Los Angeles.