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Vanessa Maciel Napoles

She/Her/Hers
Las Vegas
  • Folk & Traditional Arts
  • Visual Arts
  • Dance

Vanessa Maciel Napoles is a Mexican Folk Artist formally educated with local artisans at the Arts Institute of Guadalajara, Jalisco. She has lived in Las Vegas for eight years and has come to love the desert landscape and the community. Inspired by her culture and heritage, she creates mixed media artwork utilizing natural materials such as paper, wood, wire, iron, and cardboard. Her main goal is to keep her culture's traditions alive through passing them on to the next generation.

School & community workshops

I have taught the following :

-Summer Challenge-Clark County Public Libraries, 14 locations trough all Nevada.
made with newspaper, engrudo and masking tape.

-Las Vegas Natural History.
Axolotl, Dinosaurs, pinata, mask making, Butterflies, all from recycle materials like newspaper and engrudo.
made with newspaper, engrudo and masking tape.

-Tye-die tshirts at Festival.

-Real size bull with cardboard to Chinelos dancers.
made with newspaper,Cardboard, wood, engrudo and masking tape.

-High Scale Mojigangas to Chinelos Dancers.
made with newspaper,Cardboard, wood, engrudo and masking tape.

-Vision Boards for empowering youth, Clark County public Arts.
Made with recycled magazines and cardboard.

-Mini Mask making at Black Rock city Desert, Little Explorers.
Made with recycle newspaper and toilet paper rolls.

– Mini Luchadores, Axolotl, Pinatas at Discovery Children Museum.
Made with recycled cardboard, newspaper, engrudo, masking tape.

-Jack Skellington and The Grinch at Desert Breeze Community Center.
Made with recycled cardboard, newspaper, engrudo, and masking tape.

-Catrina making at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center.
Made with recycled cardboard, newspaper, engrudo, and masking tape.

-Mini Mask at Nevada State University.
Made with recycled cardboard, newspaper, engrudo, and masking tape.

-Axolotl, Amenites, Donosaurs, Tule Ducks, Mask at Nevada State Museum.
Made with recycled cardboard, newspaper, engrudo, and masking tape.