Celia Herrera Rodriguez (born November 26, 1952, in Sacramento, California) is an American educator, painter, and performance and installation artist.
Rodriguez is originally from Sacramento, California, and she was born on November 26, 1952. She has taught programs including Chicano Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for seventeen years. She has also been an adjunct professor in the Diversity Studies program at California College of the Arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. Herrera Rodriguez is also the co-founder and co-director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice at UCSB, where she teaches Chicana[x] art history and studio practice in the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies.
Rodriguez received her B.A. in art and ethnic studies from CSU-Sacramento. She also received her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She went on to study art history, in 1987, theory and criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago.
This work was originated presented in III Bienal Internacional de Estandartes Tijuana 2004. Its title means " A Prayer on Four Roads".
This production was created by Cherrie Moraga in 2005, with Herrera Rodriguez creating the set and costume concepts.
The multimedia performance was created in 2006 and presented at the Glass Curtain Gallery, in Chicago, Illinois.
Her series of artworks was published in 2011, in a collection of essays by Cherrie Moraga: âÂÂXicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Writing 2000- 2010". Alexander, Jacqui. âÂÂPedagogies of Crossing.â Google Books, Duke University Press, 2005