{"id":21,"date":"2026-01-08T00:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:42:23","slug":"__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4d0120d-da9d-45f8-9cbf-6bbc4ad4b5b6-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4d0120d-da9d-45f8-9cbf-6bbc4ad4b5b6-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/marugenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4d0120d-da9d-45f8-9cbf-6bbc4ad4b5b6-2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/marugenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4d0120d-da9d-45f8-9cbf-6bbc4ad4b5b6-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/marugenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4d0120d-da9d-45f8-9cbf-6bbc4ad4b5b6-2-9x12.jpg 9w, http:\/\/marugenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4d0120d-da9d-45f8-9cbf-6bbc4ad4b5b6-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>I&#8217;m a Puerto Rican-born contemporary jeweler, writer, and art educator based in the borderlands of Mexico and the USA. The summer I was&nbsp;6, I&nbsp;collected a seashell on the beach and made my first jewelry piece. This sparked an interest&nbsp;in&nbsp;craft that turned into a 20-year metalsmithing practice, shaped by studies in history, fashion design, and contemporary jewelry in Florence, Italy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My pieces have been exhibited internationally, exploring jewelry as a language of connection, memory, and identity. In my writing, I think about material culture, world-making, and the ways craft builds communities, with a focus on Puerto Rico\u2014publishing essays and creating arts programming that foregrounds accessibility, cultural heritage, and embodied knowledge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My work is rooted in the belief that making together\u2014whether a cup, a pair of earrings, or an exhibition\u2014creates moments of belonging. Every object, every story, carries within it the web of people&nbsp;who are part of&nbsp;its creation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brz-root__container\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Puerto Rican-born contemporary jeweler, writer, and art educator based in the borderlands of Mexico and the USA. The summer I was&nbsp;6, I&nbsp;collected a seashell on the beach and made my first jewelry piece. This sparked an interest&nbsp;in&nbsp;craft that turned into a 20-year metalsmithing practice, shaped by studies in history, fashion design, and contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"brizy-blank-template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}