“Melanie Cervantes is a Bay Area, Xicana artist who translates the visions of justice movements into images that agitate, motivate, and inspire. Her work includes illustrations, paintings, and stencils, but she is best known for her political posters. Employing vibrant colors and hand drawn illustrations, her work moves those viewed as marginal to the center. Melanie views her purpose as an artist to make art that can be put into the hands of the communities who inspire it.”

From Celebrate People’s History