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Visual Art
Illustrated blue butterfly with yellow edges. Above it is a yellow cone flower and bellow two white flowers with sharpe petals. The illustration features a mirror image effect shaped like a triangle. A vine of leaves with a blue dragonfly on the outter edge frames the base and a smaller vine of leaves frame the top part in a diagonal. In between the vines are a pink zinna, another white sharp petaled flower, and a yellow daffodil. Hovering above the zinna is a red throated hummingbird illustration facing toward the center.
DIGITALLY ILLUSTRATED EVENT LOGO | Sewa Ania: Celebration of the Flower World © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
On a orange glitter background is a clear magnet painted with a white and orange tiger with brown details for the ears, nose and mouth. It has teal eyes that match the color of text that reads be yielding. Next to the tiger is a star with a swirl marks radiating out from it.
SHRINKY DINK MAGNET WITH ACRYLIC PAINT | Tiger Spirit © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
A figure made of black ink and white negative space sits with its knees up and arms around their legs. Above their head is a floating raised yellow flower. The background is white with a yellow border, featuring zig zags on the top and bottom.
MINI LINOCUT PRINT | Flower Anito © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
Poems
(de)Seeded by Marianna G. M. Cota © 2025 All rights reserved.

Check out my contribution (de)Seeded to Beauty All Around Us - a community-led zine featuring poetry, prose, and storytelling from 15 Indigenous youth across Turtle Island!

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What Does a Turtle Shell Do?
© 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
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Itepo waata ka’a tuasa no-noka (We don’t truly talk about love)
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Photography
Five individuals dressed in colorful regalia are standing together before entering the powwow grounds. Two young men shake hands as three women are smiling at one another behind them.
Meskwaki Annual Powwow © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
Trays of sliced fruit, including watermelon and cantaloupe, sit atop a white clothed table. On top of the trays are rattan covers with a strand of shell decorations. Behind the fruit trays are strawberry cupcakes.
Meshed Melons © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
A Herky Statue with illustrations of wildflowers native to Iowa in black, white, and yellow.
Herky Among the Wildflowers © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
A terracotta cerub smiles looking upward with its eyes closed as it sits next to a an empty candle glass with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In the candle glass is a painted blue cross with roses on the left and right sides, a yellow and orange sun with a face, and a illustration of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the middle. In the background, there appears to be vases of flowers.
Nana's Altar © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.
Landscape of the Sedona red rock formations with green shrubbery at the base against a clear sky.
Sedona © 2024 Marianna G. M. Cota. All rights reserved.

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