Matthew Rolando Garza is a Latinx Queer Performance Artist originally from South Texas. Garza’s work as an artist and educator explores the relationship between the individual and the collective. He is dedicated to creating compassionate spaces for people to move, breathe, and practice strength, resilience, and patience together.

 

By day, he runs the Dance & Yoga Program at Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts, a public charter school for grades 7-12. By night, he works as a practicing artist; coordinates community restorative yoga programs; and teaches Theatre in the Rhode Island Prison. Garza facilitates workshops on Art, Oppression, Mindfulness, and Raising Youth Voice at conferences and for professional development, particularly in settings that aim to privilege marginalized voices. Garza graduated from Brown University and New York University, where he studied the history of education, teaching, and performance art.

 

In his free time, he loves practicing yoga, dancing in gay clubs, eating spaghetti, contemplative journaling, playing with glitter, creating collaborative art, and spending time in nature.

 

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