AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR
Marcela Avelar
Marcela’s art lives at the intersection of art, music and experience, passionate about intertwined mediums.
Currently, she sits on the Advisory Board as a Visual Arts Consultant of Art Bath, an immersive performance salon series, where she collaborated with Devon Teucher, ABT principal Ballerina in New York and Misheel Ganbold In Paris
She has painted in various galleries like the iconic Blue Building, National Sawdust and Casa Wilmot Chapulín to name a few.
American Baritone, Will Liverman, invited her to paint Live at SongStudio 2024 hosted by Reneé Fleming, becoming the first Visual Artist at Carnegie Hall.
OTHER ENDEAVORS
Marcela Avelar partnered with Grammy nominated musician Valerie June and illustrated and illustrated Somebody to Love: The Story of Valerie June’s Sweet Little Baby Banjolele, a children’s book published by Third Man Records.
Marcela is the founder of a not-for-profit digital art collective called TheArtruist.org. 100% of profits are donated to organizations that are doing meaningful work every day to make the world a little better.
Art with Purpose.
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The City: Marcela Avelar
Artista multidisciplinaria. Founder of TheArtruist. Performance painter. Global citizen. Mexican-born. Brooklyn-based.
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'I Loved Living in Mexico, But Moving to the US Changed My Life'
This is the story of an old friend, maybe my oldest friend: Inspiration. As children, we stopped time together. We would draw, play games, write stories, dance and dream. Sometimes we would just stare at the ceiling and imagine new things.
-Newsweek
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Marcela Avelar Of The Artruist: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist
As a part of our series about “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist” I had the pleasure of interviewing Marcela Avelar.
–Authority Magazine