Guadalupe Barajas is a  fourth-year college student earning her bachelor’s degree in Art Education. She is a Mexican-American artist who resides in Milwaukee and focuses her art on the importance of advocacy within immigrant communities and her culture. Her preferred mediums are Printmaking, and fibers but she also loves incorporating mixed media in her pieces. She hopes to inspire youth and growing adults to create and use their creative minds for good causes. Her art includes paintings specifically working on activism for people of color, collages, prints and activism posters created through abbaca and cotton handmade paper. She knew she had a passion for art early on in middle school and it expanded throughout high school. 

She is very passionate about creating advocacy art and finds herself advocating for the Latino community through her prints and paintings. She strongly believes art is intended to be fun and release negative energy. Before attending Alverno College, Guadalupe was a first-year college student at Cardinal Stritch University where she created digital art and drawings with charcoal. She has also attended pre-college courses at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design where she took figurative drawing classes which positively challenged her. She has emerged herself in her artist community by attending different events hosted at Arts@Large and her job AWE. 

Her main inspiration stems from a printmaking course she took recently at Alverno College where she discovered her love for art that tells the story of others through advocacy. She took a printmaking, and fibers course where she got the opporunity to push these ideas further. Her high school art teacher and the people she has met, along with her life experiences have also influenced her in a postive way. Some of her experience so far has been decorating for a museum exhibit dedicated to young children during her time at Cardinal Stritch, and student observing at Greenfield Bilingual School, as well as student observing at Frank Lloyd Intermediate, Gaenslen School, and St Joan Antida High School. Lupe's main goal is to connect with herself and other youth on a deeper level to find healing and purpose through visual arts. One of her goals in life is to help different minority groups heal through art and allow students to know that they deserve to take up space at all times.