Studio Mestiza was founded in 2022 as a way to share the beauty of handmade items to celebrate art, nature, and traditional craft. Since then, it has evolved into our founder’s creative brain child and digital eco-estate housing a portfolio of work, an online publication called The Meadowsweet Journal, and an online shop offering small-batch home and wellness goods.

The term Mestiza embodies our founder’s experience as a mixed race individual growing up Latina and Asian. Her childhood years in Mexico and now present day California, stirred the melting pot of her identity as a young artist finding representation in predominantly Eurocentric art spaces.

Studio Mestiza is a love letter and safe space to celebrate brown hands making art with a deep connection to the earth. We welcome you to join our community of plant lovers and artists alike!

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MEET THE FOUNDER

  • Lizzy was born in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she spent most of her childhood attending Lancaster, a private bilingual school, and Instituto Morelense de Bellas Artes studying classical Ballet.

    Her family later relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where she continued her dance training.

    After high school, she moved to Southern California and had the privilege of attending CalArts as a dance major.

    Lizzy has always admired every aspect of the arts, so it wasn't long before she realized she, too, had a passion for photography. After she was hired as an assistant for the institute photographer at school, she quickly discovered how both dance and photography could converge.

  • Lizzy graduated from California Institute of the Arts, in 2019, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area working as a freelance movement and visual artist locally and internationally.

    Lizzy’s work has been primarily dance and portrait photography but has always found a passion for the outdoors. Through traveling to twenty countries and hiking with her beloved mini Australian Shepherd, Lizzy has found an affinity for photographing nature, wildlife, and lifestyle in different parts of the world. She finds inspiration in a country’s language and cultural practices and advocates for the Earth as an eco-warrior, budding herbalist, and small space gardener.

  • Since 2018, Lizzy has been on a journey to lower her environmental footprint and has immersed herself in the world of renewable energy, composting, and slow living. She hopes to create a nurturing space where she can showcase her creative voice by advocating for the things that she feels most passionate about.

    Growing herbs in the garden lead to her discovery of the world of Herbalism and the amazing medicinal properties herbs have to offer. Since then she has studied Herbalism and Aromatic Medicine as a form to connect the dots between the earth and our bodies. Lizzy believes in improving our lives with more natural solutions. Getting to work with the simplest rawest forms of ingredients that can be found in nature hold a great deal of importance to her handmade items.

  • Lizzy is also the founder of Studio Mestiza, a digital eco estate that houses her artistic work and nature-inspired shop that sells a handmade collection of herbal soaps + salves, beeswax candles, and functional ceramics.

    Creating Studio Mestiza was a way to celebrate her roots as an Asian-Mexican-American female with handmade and traditional craft to live intentionally through the seasons.

    Her business speaks to the many creative endeavors that make up Lizzy’s artistic and eco-preneurial journey. Of course, she's just getting started! Her online presence is planting seeds for what's to come in the future. She dreams of one day owning land, molded by permaculture principles, where she can run an artist residency of her own.