Through the use of archival family photographs and documents, often dating from the era of Jim Crow and the American civil rights movement, her work addresses themes of interiority, identity and cultural preservation.

Intuitively layering printmaking, hand embroidery and quilting techniques that connect her practice and visual language to an ancestral lineage of Black women artists and makers, Santana constructs tactile narratives, traversing the space between memory and the physical evidence of Black life.

Printmaking Techniques:  Screenprint, relief print (block print), monotype

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