June 2019

“Monuments: Our Immigrant Mothers”

by Yehimi Cambrón
for Laura Patricia Calle Grant
📍 Decatur, Ga

Yehimi, 2019 recipient of our Laura Patricia Calle Grant, created this mural to honor the strength and diversity of women in our immigrant communities. The mural is marked by her signature combination of immigrant portraiture and the migrating monarch butterfly.

Yehimi Cambrón is an artist, activist, and public speaker born in Michoacán, México and raised in Atlanta. Cambrón’s artwork focuses on celebrating the contributions and resilience of immigrants.

I began looking for a wall in Decatur because I am a Scottie (Agnes Scott College) and as an art student there, I dreamed of painting a mural in the city whose walls had inspired me. We ended up with this wall for my mural for Living Wall’s Laura Patricia Calle grant because it was in bad condition and the two artists who originally painted are in different continents. The immigrant mothers in ‘Monuments: Our Immigrant Mothers’ will represent part of the diversity of our immigrant community.
— yehimi cambron

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