Yasmin Mora is a Chicana textile artist and designer whose practice is rooted in ritual, remembrance, and transformation. Through Umaguma, she creates large-scale textile works that serve as tactile offerings, visual topographies of feeling that explore duality, ancestry, and the body as a compass.
Her work reflects the complexity of a dual identity, shaped by the interplay of Mexican and American cultures, of honoring tradition while embracing rebellion, and of finding belonging in the in-between. Mora works with handspun, naturally dyed Oaxacan wool: fibers drawn from the earth, rich in history and permanence. Her process is led by intuition, shaped by the body, and guided by spirit. The act of making becomes a ritual, a practice of care, devotion, and endurance, embedded into every fiber.
At the heart of her work is an homage to the women who came before her, to her abuelas and ancestors, whose labor and stories live on through her hands. Mora’s textiles are not just material objects; they are living conversations, ceremonies of memory, and invitations to reconnect with what has been inherited, shed, and remembered.
