“The Quetzalcoatl-Virgen Mural”
The Quetzalcoatl-Virgen Mural is a gift to Casa Coyo neighbors. Casa Coyo commissioned muralist and graffiti artist Hector Calderon to create a mural honoring the feathered serpent, Mesoamerican creator, god of learning and knowledge...
Nanobah Becker is the recipient of Casa Coyo's 2010 Film Grant
Nanobah Becker is the recipient of Casa Coyo's 2010 Film Grant for business development of Full, her first feature as writer/director. The Casa Coyo Film grant is to be used for business development and to help market her film to investors....
“Greening Casa Coyo”
Casa Coyo is located in Lincoln Heights, just north of Chinatown and Downtown Los Angeles. In an effort to use less water while creating beauty, Brenda Chavez, Casa Coyo's founder, become a gardener using only succulents and California native plants...
Queering Mictlan is a Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos celebration
and art exhibit which recognizes the queer voice as a source of insight
and inspiration. Queering Mictlan is more than an art exhibit, it is an indigenous prayer to mother earth....
Casa Coyo's mission is to create a more just environment around issues of race, indigenous identity, class, gender and sexuality. Casa Coyo wishes to honor mother earth/nuestra madre tierra with the projects it supports and the events and exhibits it produces. Casa Coyo is committed to providing grants to artists and sponsoring organizations that share its mission.
Creating a gray water system can be time consuming and costly. I was thinking of providing water cans for residents to reuse water which they would otherwise throw away. I have a water bucket and instead of throwing away water which is clean (like changing Kitty's water bowl), I dump the water in the bucket and later use it to water plants... Cynthia could use hers to water her vegetable garden (pictured).
Quetzalcoatl-Virgen Mural
Grants & Sponsorships
Greening Casa Coyo
Queering Mictlan
