Artist & Educator
Liz Mayorga is inspired by DIY art movements and entertainment she observed while growing up in Southeast Los Angeles, where early Punk and Hip Hop shaped her perspective on art and community. She prides herself in being from a working class Latinx neighborhood and attributes her upbringing to shaping her approach to art and education.
Liz moved to the Bay Area in 2004 for college. She was the Director of the San Francisco Zine Fest from 2012 - 2015, and has been published in anthologies such as Tales From La Vida and Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival. She was an Adjunct English professor at local community colleges through the COVID-19 pandemic and learned how to merge her love of graphic design, technology, and education. She now works as a Learning Experience Consultant.
PUBLISHED WORK:
“Bird-Watching in 2020” in The Baylies, January 2021
“Sleeping Fury” in Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival edited by Diane Noomin, September 2019
“Brainstorm Session” in Tales From La Vida edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, February 2018
“Bread & Butter #1” Rosarium Publishing, October 2016
INTERVIEWS:
August 2020: Interview in The Baylies
September 2017: “Latchkey Projects” Art Show at The San Jose State University Library
April 2016: Rosarium Publishing, “Rosy Conversation: Liz Mayorga”
April 2016: Graphic Borders - “Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future: Art and Interview featured in this academic anthology on Latino Comics”
September 2015: Hoodline - SF News, "San Francisco Zine Fest Celebrates DIY Art, Alternative Press Tomorrow"
January 2015: Tayo Magazine, "SF Zine Fest Interview with Liz Mayorga, Director of SFZF 2014"
August 2014: SF Gate, "S.F. Zine Fest: Homage to little worlds on paper"
July 2013: PRI's The World, "Latino Comic Book Artists Explore Roots, Culture”
June 2013: Mission Local - SF News, “Mission Cartoonists Share Work at Latino Comics Expo”
November 2012: NBC Latino's "A Woman Breaking Into a Man's World of Cartoons"
September 2012: Art Animal - A Woman's Art Magazine, "Interview with Zine Writer Liz Mayorga"
May 2012: Color Lines, "At San Francisco's Latino Comics Expo, Artists Create Their Own Heroes"
EDUCATION
California College of the Arts, Class of 2013, MFA in Creative Writing
University of California - Berkeley, Class of 2006, Bachelors in English
Cerritos College, Class of 2004, English A.A.