2026.1 Newsletter
HAPPY SPRING ART TRIPPERS! 🌸
The first few months of the year have been full of excitement here at Art Trippin’, so let’s get right into it!
SIPS & STORIES: WOMEN IN MEXICAN ART HISTORY 🥂
In the last newsletter, I promised that a live lecture series was coming your way soon… and it’s finally here!
Join us on Thursday evenings in April for Sips & Stories: Women in Mexican Art History, a four-part lecture series blending cocktails, art, and community (all the best things). We have limited seats available, so get your tickets now at arttrippin.com!
This series explores the power, creativity, and resilience of women artists and thinkers in Mexico—from ancient civilizations to modern art. Through engaging storytelling, rich visuals, and thoughtful discussion, each session brings history to life. Wine, beer, cocktails, and mocktails will be available for purchase. Food trucks will also be located outside of the museum. Price includes admission to all four lectures.
Here’s a sneak peak at the lecture schedule…
April 9, Lecture 1: Power Before Colonization
Women, goddesses, and authority in ancient Indigenous Mexico
April 16, Lecture 2: The Feminist Nun
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the fight for women’s intellect, voice, and education in colonial Mexico
April 23, Lecture 3: Frida, the Icon
Identity, pain, politics, and self-fashioning
April 30, Lecture 4: Beyond Frida
Women artists shaping modern & contemporary Mexican art
Thursday evening lectures at the Fullerton Museum Center
Doors open at 6pm
Lecture brings at 7pm
Fullerton Museum Center
301 N Pomona Ave, Fullerton, CA 92832
Free parking in Wiltshire Parking Structure
Some people have asked if they are able to purchase a ticket for only one of the evening’s lectures. If there are still seats available as we get closer to the event, we’ll offer single-evening tickets. If you’d like to be put on the wait list for single-evening tickets, reply to this email and you'll be the first to know if/when we start selling them!
ART TRIPPIN’ IN ITALY 🇮🇹
Art Trippin’ in Italy Episode 1, Rome: Old & New, is now available on YouTube! If you’re interested in really immersing yourself in the art, food, and culture of a place instead of just seeing the most popular sites, this series is for you. In Episode 1, we go off the beaten path to Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, and the Ostiense neighborhood, where a modern powerplant has been transformed into a museum that houses ancient Roman statues.
A big thank you to everyone who came to the watch party! It was so special to celebrate with all of you. And who doesn’t love an impromptu Q&A!?
ART TRIPPIN’ TALK
Dismembered, Defiant, Divine: The Story of Coyolxauhqui
Picture this: Your mom is out sweeping a temple when she accidentally gets pregnant by a ball of feathers (yes, that’s how it happens) and your siblings are furious. Like, group-chat-blowing-up furious.
Coyolxauhqui, the Mexica moon goddess, led her 400 brothers in an uprising against their mother, Coatlicue, before their sun god brother Huitzilopochtli could even be born. He burst from the womb fully armored, defeated his siblings, and hurled Coyolxauhqui's dismembered body into the sky, where she became the moon, and her 400 brothers scattered across the heavens as the stars of the Milky Way. A family feud so epic it literally shaped the cosmos.
In 1978, workers digging a Mexico City street accidentally unearthed an enormous circular stone relief, over 10 feet in diameter, depicting Coyolxauhqui in pieces, limbs splayed, serpents coiling, bells adorning her cheeks. As art historians understand it, this monumental disk was intentionally placed at the base of the Templo Mayor, where sacrificial bodies would fall. She was meant to be defeated. Perpetually.
But Chicana theorist and writer Gloria AnzaldĂşa refused that reading. In her groundbreaking book, Borderlands/La Frontera, AnzaldĂşa reclaims Coyolxauhqui as the original rebellious sister, a symbol of feminine power so threatening that patriarchal myth had to literally tear her apart to contain it. Her fragmented body becomes a blueprint for what culture does to women who dare to resist. AnzaldĂşa even used Coyolxauhqui as a verb: to coyolxauhqui; to reconstruct yourself from the pieces they left behind.
Does this sound like your kind of story? Do you want to learn more about the badass women of Mexican art history? Join me this April at the Fullerton Museum Center for Sips & Stories: Women in Mexican Art History, where we dig up the goddesses they tried to bury.
Stay Trippy,
Dr. Megan Lorraine Debin
Written by: Dr. Megan Lorraine Debin, Natalie D’Allura (www.linkedin.com/in/nataliedallura)
