Karina A. Monroy | Sueños Florecientes/Flowering Dreams: Portals to Self
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Fri, Jan 9, 2026 - Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Location
New City Arts Initiative
114 3rd St NE
Details
Exhibit opening: January 9 from 5-7:30PM; Artist talk at 6PM. Free and open to the public. All ages welcome. Exhibition opening sponsored by William Taylor and the Taylor Group of Truist Investment Services.
From January 9-February 18, 2026, New City Arts presents Sueños Florecientes/Flowering Dreams: Portals to Self, an exhibition of work by Karina A. Monroy, with featured works by Andrea Agredano and Carmen Monroy.
In this new body of work, Karina explores concepts of intergenerational matrilineal healing through art-making and the cultivation of dreaming practices. Inspired by Mexico’s ancestral practice of lucid dreaming—referred to as flowering dreams—Karina uses crochet, painting, embroidery, video installation and performance to embody and bring her dreams into the material world.
Karina Monroy is a California born Chicana, mixed media artist and art therapist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She holds a B.A. in Art and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA in Art Therapy from The George Washington University. As an artist and art therapist, Karina is process-driven – embodying art-making as ritual, and ritual as art-making. Her work explores, challenges and embraces themes of healing, femininity and matrilineal legacies within Chicanx culture. Through needlework, painting, sculpture and drawing, Karina creates delicate images and objects as sacred restorative offerings for herself and her feminine ancestors.
