Originally from Puebla City, Mexico, Mirel Fraga started her professional career as designer in 2006, working in independent illustration, textile, editorial and graphic design projects and also in cultural institutions of Oaxaca City such as Jacobo and María Angeles Workshop in San Martín Tilcajete, the Textile Museum of Oaxaca, and the Center for the Arts of Oaxaca in San Agustín Etla. She also belonged to a Oaxacan women collective of artists, artisans and designers named Miku Meko, where she exchanged creative knowledge of diverse techniques such as ceramics, traditional/contemporary textiles, natural dyeing, design, and embroidery. Currently Mirel works in multidisciplinary projects mixing illustration, drawing, graphic arts, mural painting and design, and she is a cofounder of the independent publisher house Polvoh Press Oaxaca. In 2019 she received the acquisition prize in the graphics category for the First Arts Biodiversity of Mexico 2019 Biennial with her 6 color water based serigraph “Flora”. The most important themes in her work are nature and all its elements, flora and fauna, women and their connection with the universe, the cosmos, life on and outside the Earth, magical objects, colors and our relationship as human beings with all of them. Mirel Fraga CV (Spanish)Mirel Fraga CV (English)