Doña Chingona

Instagram: @patrona.dona.chingona
Website: donachingona.square.site

Bio: Amy Snyder, artist behind Doña Chingona, is a 17 year industry veteran. Amy has danced, bartended, and waitressed in Portland strip clubs for almost two decades. She pulls her influences from the incredible entertainers she works with regularly and life experiences as an aging millennial. Amy finds happiness most with her children, her arts and crafts, games and cards, dancing and food. Amy lives her life battling multiple sclerosis and colonization while recognizing that beautiful moments happen frequently and gratitude for those times is imperative.

Artist Statement: Doña Chingona is the Patron Saint of high heels. She has dedicated her life to saving Tierra Madre from forever plastics that can be transformed into usable art. She is fiercely protective of the female houses of worship and dutifully mindful of how matriarchy demands taking better care of our first mother. She is Indigenous and advocates for the caretakers of the lands. She is proudly Chicana and resurrects the unheard voices of Latino people's struggle, as they have so maliciously been erased from histories of empires they’ve built. Doña Chingona would like for you to consider where the world would be without Latinos? Consider the food you ate today and where it came from. There is not a day of your life that hasn’t been impacted by Latino labor. productivity or ingenuity.

Titles/pricing:

• “You love our labor, our food, our servitude, our produce, our fighters, our contributions to your life but you don’t love us.”, mixed media, $300 ($100/ea if sold separately) 

• “You love our women, our tobacco, our sugarcane, our cocaine, our peyote, our chocolate, our ayahuasca, our marijuana, but you don’t love us.”, mixed media, $250