This week's artist check-in brings us a conversation with #21cartist Lina Puerta. ⁠ Puerta creates mixed media sculptures, installations, collages, handmade-paper paintings, and wall hangings by combining a wide range of materials, from artificial plants and paper pulp to found, personal, and recycled objects. Her work draws from her experience as a Colombian-American artist, examining the relationship between nature and the human-made, and engaging themes of food justice, xenophobia, hyper-consumerism, and ancestral knowledge.⁠ Link in bio to her entire conversation with 21c Chief Curator, Alice Gray Stites.⁠ ⁠ #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist #contemporaryart #thisis21c