Red Calaca Studio

They don’t just commission a painting.
They commission me to tell their story. 🪶

This is what it looks like when a community trusts you with their words, their values, their spirit — and asks you to make it visible.

Creating scholars. Nurturing spirituality. Embracing diversity.

These aren’t just phrases painted on a canvas. They are the heartbeat of a congregation that opened their doors and said — “Rosalia, show the world who we are.”

Grateful beyond words for this collaborative commission with the community of Trinity Episcopal Church 🙏🏽✨

Wings don’t just carry you. Sometimes, they carry a whole community.

🎨 | Charlotte, NC

I was once a young woman crossing a desert with nothing but a dream and faith in my heart. 🌵
No English. No map. Just hope.
And THIS WEEK I am going back to the same border.
Not to cross it.
But to screen my film The Magic Kite on el muro. 🪁
A story of our Latinx community in Charlotte.
Glowing on the very wall that so many of us know too well.
The Magic Kite 🪁 at the Nogales International Film Festival 2026 🎬🏆
May 14 • 1:00 PM • Nogales
🥹 To every little girl who was told her dream was too big —
To every person who crossed a desert to find a better life

My heart aches. 💔
But it is also full 😭☺️ because of you.
In 2012, we painted this mural together. Not for money. Not for fame. For our community. For the children left behind by deportation.

I am a Mexican-American ARTivist. I have spent my life making art that says: you matter, you belong, your story deserves to be on walls. To have that work erased — without my knowledge, without my consent — is not just a personal loss. It is a loss for every person whose spirit lived in that image.

For everyone who needed to see themselves on a wall on Central Avenue and know: you belong here.
The Consul of Mexico came to its dedication. Our people showed up. And for 13 years, it stood as a testament to who we are.
Thank you to for documenting this piece and its meaning. And thank you to everyone who has reached out with love, outrage, and support. I see you. I feel you. I am not alone in this.
Nuestra historia no se borra. 🖤

Did you know that right now, young mothers in the US are wearing ankle monitors so they won’t be deported and separated from their children?
This is Gen Z Guadalupe 😇 sacred, modern, and monitored.
She gets to stay. But not free. 🦋…in progress


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