This family-friendly workshop invites participants of all ages (12+) to engage in a collaborative map-making experience. No prior experience is required! Attendees will create both personal and collaborative maps from memory, creating them with their favorite places, native flora, natural dyes, and real and imagined fauna. We will share family stories, draw inspiration from the wisdom of Octavia E. Butler, and collectively create maps for our future.  

This workshop is for adults and kids 12 years old and up. All Individuals and families are welcome! No prior experience required.   

Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO and Mellon Art Collection, NYC and others. She was recently awarded the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art, 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency 2020, Creative Capital Award 2020.  Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spectrum News 1, and others.