Coronado, Alonzo

Alonzo Coronado 

Everything I Am 

16 x20 

Digital 

$100 

Bio: My name is Alonzo Coronado. I am a member of the Pasqua Yaqui Tribe of Guadalupe as well as Mexican American. I am a 3rd year at Arizona State University on the Tempe campus with a major in Animation with the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts. I also run an online shop on my own through Instagram as well as with Student Made at ASU, an organization where Sun Devil creatives can have a platform to sell their works.

Artist Statement: There are lots of talks and discourse that has taken place saying how various border tribes cannot be considered to be “Real” Native/Indigenous. Although history plainly states how colonial borders have created that mindset and way of thinking which in turn divides people rather than coming together. I wanted to create a piece of art that is near and dear to my heart, my family, and through it express how there is no definitive way or style that can be considered “Native Art." In this piece I have included plenty of imagery of what my environment is and also what pertains to my culture. I have had interactions in the past getting called, “Not Native enough” or “More Mexican”. This piece is supposed to represent how many similarities and connections come from both sides of who I am, since that is the reason why I exist. That is what made me Everything I Am.