Marisa Godínez and Sheila Alvarado in conversation with Álex Huerta-Mercado

The artist Marisa Godínez (Lima, 1950) studied at the PUCP’s School of Art, and was a pioneer in feminist drawing in Peru. In 1978 she was invited to contribute to the satirical magazine Monos y Monadas with drawings whose subject matter was poetic and notably anti-patriarchal. This multi-talented artist, who uses a range of different media, returned to drawing in 2017 and in 2022 held the La Niña No Mirada exhibition at the Luis Miró Quesada Garland Gallery in Miraflores. Sheila Alvarado (Lima, 1979) is an artist, writer and LGTBI activist. She graduated from the National School of Fine Art, with a silver medal in printmaking. In 2019 she won the Peruvian Ministry of Culture’s Child and Young Adult Literature Prize. In 2020, she was one of the winners of the same ministry’s National Competition for Creative Child and Young Adult Literature Projects and a year later represented Peru as an illustrator and writer at the Guadalajara Book Fair. Both artists will talk to Álex Huerta-Mercado about activism through art.