{"id":86250,"date":"2025-07-02T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=86250"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:20:20","slug":"meet-cindy-cindita-macias-an-educator-who-found-healing-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/meet-cindy-cindita-macias-an-educator-who-found-healing-through-art","title":{"rendered":"Meet Cindy &#8216;Cindita&#8217; Macias, an educator who found healing through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C7D1V5Xc9VY?si=3qjC7pzUrzLE3jy_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cindy Macias\u2019 introduction to art came through therapy.<\/p>\n<p>After an incident of sexual violence, Macias said she was looking to heal and found art therapy most effective.<\/p>\n<p>The daily outfit checks she posts on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cindy_is_as_cindy_does\/\">Instagram<\/a> stories serve two purposes: to show off her latest look and to give her the \u201cability to feel seen without being harmed,\u201d Macias said.<\/p>\n<p>She continues to draw inspiration from that healing process by making collages or designing and carving out prints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of my work is meant to comfort a part of me that was hurt,\u201d Macias said.<\/p>\n<p>Her art medium fluctuates from project to project, but they all follow a similar theme of healing her inner self.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s for the child within me, for the teenager within me,\u201d Macias said. \u201cIt&#8217;s to affirm to myself, \u2018that s*** sucked and you&#8217;re going to be OK.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every Monday night, Macias teaches a class at Place LB, a volunteer-run community print studio in the Wrigley neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Each week, she welcomes artists of all skill levels and helps them decide what project to embark on or gives tips on their works in progress.<\/p>\n<p>She shows beginners how to carve to make a print and how to collage. Her latest art piece features prints of four Bratz dolls on a set of playing cards.<\/p>\n<p>Macias said she her inspiration for the project came from always wanting to own a Bratz doll as a kid. Growing up, she would visit her cousin\u2019s house and play with their neighbors&#8217; collection.<\/p>\n<p>Macias said she was always drawn to Bratz dolls because of \u201ctheir confidence and their attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrasting from the \u201cput together, clean career girl\u201d that Barbie represented, the Bratz dolls had an edge to them, Macias said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were so sassy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Macias also teaches art to children through Stay Arts, a nonprofit organization providing arts education to schools in southeast Lost Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>She said her goal is to expand that teaching to \u201ca bigger scale\u201d and help other victims of sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want people to be able to trust themselves again or trust the world and others,\u201d Macias said. \u201cI don\u2019t want people to feel alone on their journeys through healing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her art medium fluctuates from project to project, but they all follow a similar theme of healing her inner self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23521,"featured_media":86239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[175],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32323],"class_list":["post-86250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-in-the-studio","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86257,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86250\/revisions\/86257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86250"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=86250"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=86250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}