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The panel surveys contemporary art production by US Latinx artists of New Mexico, Texas, New York, and San Francisco working with multimedia objects, needle-based art, murals, and photography. In Karen Mary Davalos’ paper, Minnesota-based artist Dougie Padilla, Texas-born artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, and Portland-based artist V. Maldonado are considered through “nepantla modernism,” the use of traditional epistemologies in their contemporary engagement of racialized ageism, consumerism, and trans spatial politics. Guisela Latorre advances a reading of the decolonial aesthetics of the community-based stitched projects of Texas fiber sculptor, Margarita Cabrera, who addresses colonial wounds of the US-Mexico borderlands through the fabric construction of domestic objects and local plants. Ann Marie Leimer reconsiders the murals of San Francisco’s historic Balmy Alley within the context of the rapidly shifting demographics of the predominantly Latinx Mission District. And, Mariana Ortega looks at the “embodied memory-making” of the immigrant self in the photography of Ecuadorian-American New York photographer, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira.