Patty Eljaiek is a multidimensional visual artist from Barranquilla, Colombia. At the age of 3, she moved with her family of women artists to New York City. While her birth culture is neatly sewn into the fabric of her everyday life, she adopted her new country as her own through American pop culture. She is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she majored in Illustration. She is an independent teaching artist and arts education specialist at The Center for Educational Innovation, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to bringing innovative, hands-on visual art and music programs, resources and services to New York City K-12 students, teachers and parents.

Patty is especially engaged in promoting arts and culture as values that instill a sense of belonging and pride. Supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, her work with migrant families, particularly women and the matriarchal role as source of family values, cultural heritage and language, examines the transmission to subsequent generations, gradually fading in most cases.

Patty’s artworks stretch the imagination with a variety of mediums that include canvas art, sculpture, jewelry, scrapbook, crochet charms, wall mural, silk screening, and printing blocks made from foam stickers, old VHS cassettes and so much more. Her artwork seeks to share and promote the belief that we are more alike, than we are different.

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