Type in "Guerrera" as a keyword in the WWW search engine Yahoo.com and you will find that at the top of the list is Tania Guerrera’s web site. She is an artist, writer and teacher. Her art reflects her Taino/Arawak roots. She is passionate about teaching, through cultural arts, about the aboriginal people of Borinken, the island presently known as Puerto Rico. She was hired as a teaching artist by Manhattan’s El Museo del Barrio, a leading Latino museum. While there she was asked to run workshops teaching elementary school children in New York City schools about the Taino people by using art as a teaching medium.

She has has core following in the undergroung Hip-Hop scene, and has made it a point to bring art to unsual venues like nightclubs and Yoga studios.

Ms. Guerrera was born in Puerto Rico to a Newyorican single Mother, and her devoted Grandmother. She lived there until the age of thirteen when her mother decided to return to New York. Tania arrived to Manhattan, New York’s Upper West Side, spent the summer there until an apartment was found and then moved to New Rochelle, New York. Her arrival coincided with the early stages of Hip-Hop when mostly artsy teens where rhyming, breakdancing and developing the art form of Graffitti. "Gansta" rap had not yet invaded the positive and friendly and creative landcape of Hip-Hop. Thus her art is infused with a significant Urban Hip-Hop flavor.

"My work is ethnic and spiritually diverse. I use art as an activist, or what some have called --ARTIVISM--and aim to teach peaceful revolution through the creative arts. My work is a blend of Rastafarian, Yoga, MotherHood, Caribbean, Native, Puerto Rican, Hip-Hop and African Cultures. All of which are part of my psyche and Spirit. I make it a point to bring art to places where it is not expected to make places beautiful and thought provoking. I have created this store to make reproductions of my work which are affordable and functional"