ARTIST GALLERY
at Historic Capitol Hill
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the 21st annual Fiestas De Las Americas (FDLA) on Calle Dos Cinco in Oklahoma City's Historic Capitol Hill District!
This award-winning outdoor festival will take place on Saturday, October 3, 2026, and attracts thousands of visitors annually.
2026
FEATURED
ARTISTS
Vanessa
Rivas Zuniga
A 25-year-old Mexican American self-taught artist from Tempe, AZ, professional soccer player in the MASLW, and owner of Reyna's Nature plant shop.
Soccer is her entire life, so art is the hobby she practices the least — but during difficult times, it has always been her savior. Creating most when injured and unable to play. While it's devastating to step away from her favorite thing, art keeps her steady.
Rivas Zuniga hasn't been able to play in six months, and in that time has found herself creating and completing pieces that she's finally so happy to share with the world.
Maddi Primeaux
An Indigenous Mexican-American artist and activist whose work brings together art, culture, and community. Rooted in her relationship with her ancestors, family, and the histories she carries with her, her art is translated into beadwork, textiles, collage, storytelling, and collaborative art.
Her work spans across borders, from creating alongside migrant families and children in shelters in Mexico to working with families in Oklahoma City impacted by immigration enforcement. Through these experiences, art becomes another language, one that can hold memory, culture, emotion, and stories that are sometimes difficult to put into words. Her work centers the power of creating together and the many ways people make meaning, carry culture, and tell their own stories.
Aislin Marban
A surrealist artist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, focused on cultural and political art. Her work is driven by historical American events. With deep symbolism that addresses identity and Mexican-American culture. Drawing inspiration from legends, cultural, and political events to create visual narratives that feel both familiar yet uncanny, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and wander. Using surrealism, Marban provokes curiosity and the hidden truths of history. She received her BFA from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2025.
Sunny Rayo
Born and raised in Mexico and based in Oklahoma for the past two decades, Sunny Rayo is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist working primarily in acrylics and oils. Following a life-altering accident, near-death experience, and ongoing health journey, she turned to art as a daily practice and vital anchor.
Rayo uses color and imaginative forms to express raw emotion beyond the rules of physical reality. Her work draws inspiration from science, human emotion, dreams, music, irony, and legend, creating a window into her inner world. Beyond visual art, Rayo is also an avid songwriter, singer, and traditional baker.
Elie Martinez
Elieth “Elie” Martinez is a Chicana visual artist pursuing her BFA at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Her work explores identity, culture, and personal experiences through sculpture and mixed media.
Ana Becerra
A Mexican American artist born and raised in Oklahoma City, with family roots in Tlacuitapa Jalisco, Mexico. Working primarily in graphite, she draws on Mexican culture, history, music, family, and tradition to create portraits that hold both personal and shared memories.
Her work often features charros, escaramuzas, horses, and the men and women whose stories have become part of her cultural memory. Through portraiture and symbolism, she explores identity, strength, longing, and the ways stories continue to live through generations. Her drawings carry a sense of nostalgia, shaped by a desire to honor where she comes from and preserve those stories through her own artistic perspective.
Mya Uribe
A first-generation Mexican-American artist and photographer. Mya's work honors where she comes from and invites others to imagine what else is possible. She lives in the space between two cultures, the hyphenated experience of Mexican-American, and her work asks what it means to belong to both. Through her lens and brush, she looks at ordinary moments and the meaning they hold for those willing to pause. Creating gives shape to the visions in her mind and says what words often cannot.
Her curiosity reaches beyond the studio. As part of her McNair research, she studied how young Mexican Americans explore bicultural identity online. She works across photography, video, graphic design, and mural painting, and believes visual art shapes how people see themselves and each other.
