MANITOS COMMUNITY MEMORY PROJECT
The Manitos Community Memory Project is a grant-funded project establishing an archive that preserves cultural heritage for fellow Manitos in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
Through my time on this project, I’ve contributed to designing branding assets, web branding, social media management, website management, publication design, illustration, and project and time management.
Cuadernos Vol. 2
A four-booklet series that celebrates the seasons by food sovereignty, traditions, and holidays in the Manitos community. Including a bookmark with front and back descriptions of the Vol. 2 series in English and Spanish.
A four-booklet series that celebrates the seasons by food sovereignty, traditions, and holidays in the Manitos community.
The series four book titles are Primavera: Semillas y Viento, Verano: Sol y Agua, Otoño: Cosechas y Cazas, and Invierno: Humo y Hielo.
Complete booklet series with bookmark.
Primavera: Semillas y Viento. The first issue in the Vol. 2 series.
Verano: Sol y Agua. The second issue in the Vol. 2 series.
Otoño: Cosechas y Cazas. The third issue in the Vol. 2 series
Invierno: Humo y Hielo. The fourth issue in the Vol. 2 series.
Bookmark with English series description of the Vol. 2 series.
Bookmark with Spanish series description of the Vol. 2 series.
Cuaderno Volume 1 booklet set
Cuaderno Volume 1 booklet set
Pages from Cuaderno booklets
Full view of booklets, stickers, bookmark, and wrap around in the volume 1 set
Cuadernos Vol. 1
Cuadernos is a booklet series that reflects on the 1918 Spanish Flu and COVID-19 pandemics through Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. The project began in the summer of 2020 with me working on publication designs and Natasha Vasquez making illustrations throughout the series.
When the project started, the designs were originally created to be digital to be accessible during the COVID-19 lockdown but were later funded to become a printed series. The series has a collection of stories in three booklets and one blank journal free for writing and illustrating. It also includes a bookmark decorated with floral illustrations on one side and a short prompt on the reversed side with three stickers enclosed with a wraparound.
Project Mentions:
https://manitos.net/2021/11/30/mcmp-cuadernos/
https://www.cctnewmexico.org/portfolio/cuaderno-volume-1-issue-1/
https://www.krqe.com/news/community/nmhu-grads-create-educational-material-highlighting-new-mexico-history/
Following the Manito Trail
Following the Manito Trail is a cultural heritage exhibition that shares the migration experiences, creative practices, and largely untold stories of Manito (Hispanic New Mexican) families from Taos County and its surrounding area.
Project Mentions:
hhttps://manitos.net/2022/04/01/from-the-project-director-reflections-on-following-the-manito-trail/
A woman viewing family panels displayed in exhibition.
A row of panels of two different families and their backgrounds.
Following the Manito Trail entryway and Manita Ritual poem panel.
The Soto Family panels in exhibition.
Querencia: Homelands & Belonging and Migration Survival panels.
People viewing panels and objects displayed in Millicent Rogers Museum.
Table with Cuaderno booklets, placemats, and activity guide booklets.
The Martinez family viewing panels of their family and backgrounds.
Return/Reunion Panel
Identity and Web Guides
The identity guide was created to set the design standards for Manitos to keep consistency throughout projects and other uses in part of the organization.
Form Designs
The forms created were made for print and digital purposes for people who wanted to be a part of the Manitos Historian Initiative or to collect information about the various types of media that is going into the Manitos archive.
