This was a collaborative weaving where visitors were asked to free-weave to create a monumental piece. Ancestral Lines Exhibition at the, Coral Springs Museum

Communal Weaving, 2025

Community

Fund for Teachers Fellowship 2025

I traveled to Japan to learn the art of Shibori and Indigo dyeing

Wavemaker project-Drapo Sevis-Haiti

WaveMaker Grants at Locust Projects was made possible by support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is part of the Warhol Foundation's Regional Regranting Program.

This project was a collaboration between artists myself, Aurora Molina, the Little Haiti Cultural Center (LHCC), and Pascale Theard from Pascale Theard Creations in Port-au-Prince, Commissioned Haitian and In-kind donors: Ocean Bank Educational Materials (OBEM), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCANomi) in North Miami, and Peace, Love Art Yoga, Little Haiti Cultural Center

Textiles-Traditions

Art in Education

Quilting Stories, Narrating Stories Through Their Eyes is aproject engaged in distilling the essence of the immigrant experience as seen through the eyes of children and the prism of textile art.

Using the personal narratives of children who live in the Little Haiti community, this project aimed to revitalize and increase the visibility of traditional Haitian Drapo Vodou (ceremonial hand sequined and beaded flags unique to Haiti).

Quilting Stories Narrating Through Their Eyes

Year: 2019

In 2022 I traveled to Peru for an artist residency to study Andean Textiles sponsored by the Ellies, Oolite Teacher Travel Grant. I created a full curriculum which I dissiminated to Visual Art Teachers of M-DCPS

Retra-Tablos was funded by The Ellies, Miami’s visual arts awards, presented by Oolite Arts and the Coral Gables Museum. Recipients Aurora Molina and Alina Rodriguez, 2018 Creator Awards

Art in Education

Collaboration between artists Aurora Molina, Alina Rodriguez, Guatemalan-Maya Center, from Trama Textiles, Guatemala, Americans for Immigrant Justice, La Chance Music , Coral Gables Museum, Ocean Bank Educational Materials, Pollo Campero Restaurant

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Retra‐Tablos

Reclaiming culture, Ancient Textile Art

& Children of Immigration (Los Niños de Inmigración)

Year: 2018

About the project-Backstrap Weaving-Guatemala

In 2019, I won an Ellies, Oolite Creatives Grant together with Aurora Molina for the project Retra-Tablos.

Retra-Tablos is Molina's ongoing project that aims to reclaim history, memory, and culture and bring value to ancient textile arts. In this particular instance we wanted to place (los niños de inmigración) the children of

immigration front and center and give them a voice through art.

Retra-Tablos gathers a group of portraits by seventeen artists, ages 6 to 12. The phrase Retra-Tablos is a play of words between “retrato” (portrait) and “retablo” (alterpiece). Every image narrates an immigrant child’s story embedded in their Mayan ancestry, legend, folklore, and his/her assimilation as recent migrant, or as a child of immigrant parents.
By combining Mayan deities, symbols, Catholic iconography, and American pop culture, the works relate to the aesthetics of the Catholic “retablos” tradition. A retablo is a framed votive painting that forms part of the Catholic altar. Its iconography was often adopted by the peoples colonized by Spaniards and turned into bright, vibrant folk art of their own...more

2026 Update: The full exhibition of works for Retratablos is traveling to Guatema during FAMA's exhibition Beyond the Loom

Artist Collaborations

Alina Rodriguez Rojo and Shelly Mc Coy collaborated in two artworks and a talk during the exhibition, Unraveling Surrealism, Celebrating Women's Narratives Through Contemporary Fiber Art, 2024

Bottom: Alina Rodriguez Rojo, Bio suits, Collaborative Project Four Arts Museum, Talking Threads 2023. A collaboration with Shelly Mc Coy

Miami Art Week

Damian Rojo and Alina Rojo

Curated by Grela Orihuela & Maggy Cuesta),a mini–Art Venue with well-chosen and respected galleries in the 2 story bungalows, and launching “Everyone Has a Story to Tell!” as well as “The Gaze” exciting art exhibits in the public areas. Also, FilmGate Interactive will host its virtual portals experiences from Dec 4 - 6th throughout The Sagamore Hotel.