B. Stacey Villalobos (they/them & elle) is a cultural steward and interdisciplinary artist from the San Gorgonio Pass of Southern California with native and ancestral roots in Jalisco, México. They are a queer descendent of immigrants and comes from a lineage of artists, educators and land stewards. They are developing their work and practice on the ancestral lands of the Tiwa peoples of Albuquerque, New Mexico and hold space for community engagement through their online and in person programs.
Over the past 10 years they have had the honor of working with youth and families of color as a community educator, co-facilitated a racial justice program for desert conservation advocates and supported relational healing and reconciliation efforts in service of Indigenous peoples.
Through their business Song Dog Relations LLC, Stacey offers bilingual programs and services in New Mexico and beyond. Their work integrates land, art & spirit as a way to support communities towards a sense of belonging.
La madre tiene hambre, ¿cómo se alimentará? In this lifetime, Villalobos sees their art practice as a series of offerings to support their responsibility in taking care of the land. They hope to instill or strengthen a re-remembering of old ways through performance; an invitation to dive deeper into lineage, traditions and cultural ways in order to find home and belonging.
Villalobos has spent the latter part of their artistic career working primarily in photography, video and text while feeling at home through performance.
Image: B. Stacey Villalobos at the Fossil Falls trailhead in the Eastern Sierras of California, April 2024. Photo courtesy of Issac Logsdon.