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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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June 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
"Art that Breathes" Artist talk at the Intersection of Art and Herbalism
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April 26, 2025 at 4:11 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
March 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
March 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
March 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Not a bad idea!
March 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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
If trees could talk to us what would they say. Would they warn, reprimand, love, yell or simply cry?

5 words or less. This is for an art project. Thanks for your help.
#artist #gardens
March 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The fucktards
March 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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
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
This poem by Wendell Berry "Questionnaire"
March 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
wise words from mr Pete Seeger
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 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
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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
“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
March 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Day 1-10 of #the100dayproject
Reconnecting and grounding a photo journal #artisticpractice #selfcare
March 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you are in NYC go to see Nick Cave's Amalgams and Graphts, exhibit at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca. WOW! #artists
March 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Love trumps hate
March 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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
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
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#booksky #grimoire #writers
February 26, 2025 at 12:14 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!
February 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Todays vibes
#caturday
February 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
February 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM