In Our Hands at Ruiz-Healy Art Pairs Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, born in Sacramento to a Chicana mother and a Huichol Indigenous father, both migrant agricultural workers, anchors her contribution to In Our Hands with Peruvian Blues (1993), a woven and silkscreened tapestry in linen and wire measuring 56 by 37 inches. Butterflies signifying fierce warriors sit above a "CAUTION" label, a grid of smaller caution tags frames migrant families crossing, and repeated circular motifs derive from Mexica (Aztec) and Maya calendars. Her Galactic Penitentiary Blues (2026), 51 by 11 by 11 inches, belongs to the Galactic Detention Center series addressing juveniles in detention and people held in immigration facilities, built from steel and aluminum barbed wire and metallic thread into constellation-like maps. Jennifer Ling Datchuk, born in Warren, Ohio, and raised in Brooklyn, shows porcelain figures from Hustlers, My Neck, My Back Series, cast from an antique Chinese export ware ceramic pillow and bearing peaches, chicken feet, miniature vessels, and service bells. Her megaphones in like freckles, like eggshells, like stone (flesh) (2022, Kohler Company porcelain) honor a seamstress Chinese grandmother and an Irish American grandmother who worked an automotive assembly line. The two-person show, curated around craft traditions tied to women's labor, runs at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio through November 7, 2026, as part of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026.