Alicia Cardenas

Alicia Cardenas (March 22, 1977 – December 27, 2021) was an Indigenous Mexican American painter, muralist, educator, activist and community organizer.[1][2] She became a tattoo artist with her own business at a young age and was noted for being a Chicana feminist artist in Denver's male-dominated tattoo scene.[3][4] She owned the Sol Tribe tattoo shop, which had been a longstanding feature of Denver.[5] She was featured in a documentary on Chicano muralism by the Chicano Murals of Colorado Project, referred to as These Storied Walls.[2] In her community, she was known as "Mama Matriarch."[6] At the age of 44, she was murdered in a mass shooting, along with four other people.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Ferguson, Emily (December 27, 2022). "A Year of Grief: Denver's Tattoo Store Shootings". Westword. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Kabas, Marisa (2022-06-19). "His Woman-Hating SciFi Went Viral in the 'Manosphere.' If She'd Known, Maybe She Would Have Seen Him Coming". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  4. ^ "The Tragic Loss of North Denver Native, Alicia Cardenas". The Denver North Star. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  5. ^ "'Beautiful soul gone too soon': Tuesday marks 1 year since Denver-Lakewood shootings that left 5 dead". Denver 7 Colorado News. 2022-12-27. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  6. ^ "New works honor artist Alicia Cardenas who was murdered in 2021 Denver shooting spree". CBS News. Retrieved 2022-12-31.