Cameron Crowell

2 months ago | portlandmercury.com | Cameron Crowell

For the past six years, Patricia Váz-quez Gómez has worked closely with youth and families in Oregon’s Mayan Indigenous diaspora. A multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland and Mexico City, she collaborated on cultural events, art workshops, and Mayan language classes. Neither she nor the children were fluent in Yucatec Mayan, an Indigenous language spoken on the Yucatan peninsula, but the kids had the sound of it, which Vázquez Gómez wanted to better understand.