Tonya Lemos
@tonyalemosarts.bsky.social
Multi disciplinary artist + community herbalist, magic maker, community builder, activist. LGBTQia 🏳️🌈
May’s insistence that art is not a luxury feels like both a challenge and an invitation. It invites us to ask:
Who gets to make art?
Who gets to be seen as an artist?
Whose labor is visible, supported, honored?
Questions which feel deeply relevant today.
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Who gets to make art?
Who gets to be seen as an artist?
Whose labor is visible, supported, honored?
Questions which feel deeply relevant today.
open.substack.com/pub/tonyalem...
June 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
May’s insistence that art is not a luxury feels like both a challenge and an invitation. It invites us to ask:
Who gets to make art?
Who gets to be seen as an artist?
Whose labor is visible, supported, honored?
Questions which feel deeply relevant today.
open.substack.com/pub/tonyalem...
Who gets to make art?
Who gets to be seen as an artist?
Whose labor is visible, supported, honored?
Questions which feel deeply relevant today.
open.substack.com/pub/tonyalem...
My latest #substack missive. (Part 1 of 3) A Love Letter Rooted in Memory, Soil, and Ancestral Wisdom
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May 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My latest #substack missive. (Part 1 of 3) A Love Letter Rooted in Memory, Soil, and Ancestral Wisdom
tonyalemos.substack.com/p/mediterran...
tonyalemos.substack.com/p/mediterran...
"Art that Breathes" Artist talk at the Intersection of Art and Herbalism
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April 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Art that Breathes" Artist talk at the Intersection of Art and Herbalism
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I've been studying surrealism, the history and the art. But what is more surreal than losing an entire country to a cult in about 2 months.
Image Leonora Carringtons painting Rabinos, presently on display at the Rose Museum #womenartists
Image Leonora Carringtons painting Rabinos, presently on display at the Rose Museum #womenartists
March 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I've been studying surrealism, the history and the art. But what is more surreal than losing an entire country to a cult in about 2 months.
Image Leonora Carringtons painting Rabinos, presently on display at the Rose Museum #womenartists
Image Leonora Carringtons painting Rabinos, presently on display at the Rose Museum #womenartists
I got sworn in yesterday. Here is the pledge I was secretly reciting. Ready to make some good trouble now!
March 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I got sworn in yesterday. Here is the pledge I was secretly reciting. Ready to make some good trouble now!
What’s your lane/ your lanes. Mine are art activism, organizing+ educating, and trying to encourage others and help people survive the day
March 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What’s your lane/ your lanes. Mine are art activism, organizing+ educating, and trying to encourage others and help people survive the day
Have you written your postcards to the Felon in the Whitehouse yet? to be mailed on March 15th??
March 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Have you written your postcards to the Felon in the Whitehouse yet? to be mailed on March 15th??
This poem by Wendell Berry "Questionnaire"
March 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This poem by Wendell Berry "Questionnaire"
wise words from mr Pete Seeger
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
wise words from mr Pete Seeger
A reminder to you all about the importance of self care in these times, the resistance is a long game & we need each of us to be strong to make a difference. Show up, protest, then take a break; make some calls, write some former president trump postcards &make some art, then hit the streets again
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A reminder to you all about the importance of self care in these times, the resistance is a long game & we need each of us to be strong to make a difference. Show up, protest, then take a break; make some calls, write some former president trump postcards &make some art, then hit the streets again
This is terrifying....what are you doing about this? First illegal immigrants and dreamers, then legal residents and birth right citizens, Are you next?
March 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is terrifying....what are you doing about this? First illegal immigrants and dreamers, then legal residents and birth right citizens, Are you next?
“I didn't have time to be anyone's muse. I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist”
Leonora Carrington
#internationalwomensday #AccelerateAction
Leonora Carrington
#internationalwomensday #AccelerateAction
March 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“I didn't have time to be anyone's muse. I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist”
Leonora Carrington
#internationalwomensday #AccelerateAction
Leonora Carrington
#internationalwomensday #AccelerateAction
Day 1-10 of #the100dayproject
Reconnecting and grounding a photo journal #artisticpractice #selfcare
Reconnecting and grounding a photo journal #artisticpractice #selfcare
March 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Day 1-10 of #the100dayproject
Reconnecting and grounding a photo journal #artisticpractice #selfcare
Reconnecting and grounding a photo journal #artisticpractice #selfcare
What’s better than a display case of handmade books at the umass science and engineering library! #artistbooks
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
What’s better than a display case of handmade books at the umass science and engineering library! #artistbooks
No books have been more feared than grimoires and no books have been more valued & revered. A 12month class part herbalism, part art & part ceremony you will create your own Grimroire to pass down for generations to come. Conway MA
www.tonyalemosarts.com/the-art-of-t...
#booksky #grimoire #writers
www.tonyalemosarts.com/the-art-of-t...
#booksky #grimoire #writers
February 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
No books have been more feared than grimoires and no books have been more valued & revered. A 12month class part herbalism, part art & part ceremony you will create your own Grimroire to pass down for generations to come. Conway MA
www.tonyalemosarts.com/the-art-of-t...
#booksky #grimoire #writers
www.tonyalemosarts.com/the-art-of-t...
#booksky #grimoire #writers
Next up at the Mass Aggie Seed Library- who doesn’t love a seed library! I bet like me so many of you have your seed catalogs out this weekend! This show is a reminder that color will return to the land and hopefully our faces too!
February 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Next up at the Mass Aggie Seed Library- who doesn’t love a seed library! I bet like me so many of you have your seed catalogs out this weekend! This show is a reminder that color will return to the land and hopefully our faces too!
