About Artesana Foundation
Our mission is to empower artists and communities to imagine – and shape – more ethical, interconnected, and resilient worlds.
Artesana Foundation is a New York–based nonprofit dedicated to cultivating artistic practices that connect body, nature, and technology through an ecofeminist and community-centered lens.
Who We Are
Creativity as a tool for healing, critical inquiry, and collective transformation.
Founded by multidisciplinary artist and curator Alexandra Trujillo Tamayo, the foundation creates spaces where creativity becomes a tool for healing, critical inquiry, and collective transformation.
Artesana supports emerging and mid-career artists through experimental labs, residencies, public programs, and exhibitions that explore themes such as ecology, decoloniality, care practices, and sustainable futures. The foundation works at the crossroads of performance, visual arts, and social practice, fostering projects that challenge dominant narratives and amplify underrepresented voices.
With a commitment to accessibility and cultural inclusion, Artesana Foundation collaborates with local and international partners to build platforms that nurture creative autonomy, support interdisciplinary research, and generate regenerative cultural ecosystems.
Founder
Alexandra Trujillo Tamayo
Alexandra Trujillo Tamayo (b. 1990, Quito, Ecuador) is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural producer whose work fuses performance, video art, ecofeminist research, and critical pedagogy to probe the entanglements of body, territory, and technology. She holds a Master’s in Communication, Visuality, and Diversities from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, a Diploma in Contemporary Art Curatorship from IMCR (México), and a Licentiate in Psychology (cum laude) with a Minor in Arts from San Francisco University, Quito.
Her exhibitions and curatorial projects include Resilient Roots: Ecofeminism in Videoperformance at Bronx River Art Center (2025), It’s Liquid at the Venice Biennale (2024), Pavilhão Vazio at the São Paulo Biennial Foundation (2022), and the New York Latin American Art Triennial (2022). She has been an artist-in-residence at Governors Island (NYLAAT) and at Uberbau_house in São Paulo, and is a recipient of the Al-Zurich Art Prize for Art and Community (2020), the IFCI Mobility Award for AVD Bogotá (2023), and the COCOA Art Prize (2017), La nueva canción latinoamericana by Fabiano Kueva, performance in MOMA (2025).
In 2024 she served as a panelist for the FY25 Artist Fellowship cycle with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and was commissioned by CUE Art Foundation to write Luma, Between Memory and Contemplation as part of their Art Critic Mentorship Program. As founder and director of Artesana Foundation, she develops experimental curatorial initiatives and community-driven art projects that bridge ecological inquiry, decolonial practice, and participatory pedagogy across New York and Ecuador.
Our Team
Torris Pelichet
Torris Pelichet is a New York–based filmmaker, brand strategist, and cultural producer whose work bridges visual storytelling, social impact, and creative direction. Through film, digital media, and narrative strategy, he develops projects that center identity, community, and representation, challenging dominant stereotypes and amplifying marginalized voices.
With a background in branding and communications, Pelichet collaborates with artists, nonprofits, and cultural institutions to craft compelling narratives that connect audiences with socially engaged practices. His work spans documentary filmmaking, creative campaigns, and multimedia production, using storytelling as a tool for cultural dialogue and transformation.
As a co-founder of Artesana Foundation, he leads audiovisual production and strategic communications, strengthening the collective’s public presence and community engagement. His approach combines artistic sensitivity with strategic vision, supporting projects that foster equity, visibility, and creative empowerment across local and international contexts.
Victoria Ochoa
She is a product designer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and an interdisciplinary artist.
Her practice is situated at the intersection of aesthetics, design, marketing, and sustainability, articulating strategic projects in which form, experience, and critical thinking engage in dialogue with social and cultural contexts.
Her work integrates experience design, visual communication, and creative management, developing processes that connect concept, materiality, and narrative. As a performer in artistic works, she incorporates a sensitive understanding of the body and presence, expanding design beyond the object toward the relational and the performative.
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