natalie m. godinez

Natalie M. Godinez is an artist and educator raised in Tijuana, México. Godinez has collaborated with AMBOS since 2017, performing artist interventions, leading education projects, and coordinating humanitarian aid efforts. Since 2025, Godinez has acted as AMBOS’ Executive Director. In her personal art practice, she explores memories, identity, and relationships to places and language through textiles, printmaking, and collaboration. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Design from San Diego State University.  

ANABEL ALARCÓN

Anabel Alarcón. Ensenada, 1985. Artist and cultural manager. She is the creative director of Lustre Estudio, a workshop dedicated to teaching, producing, and promoting ceramics in Tijuana. She has organized discussions, exhibitions, and workshops. She has developed seven editions of the New Wave Ceramic Market and curated the exhibition Cerámica Baja Californiana for the Secretariat of Culture of Baja California. Since 2024, she has coordinated social media communications and supported AMBOS’ finances in Tijuana.

Her work focuses on ceramic sculpture using traditional techniques and experimental decoration. She has been studying at the National School of Ceramics in Tapalpa since 2019. In 2025, she participated in the Here and There artist residency, which culminated in a solo exhibition at Bread and Salt in San Diego.

GINA CLYNE

Gina Clyne is the daughter of a Cuban-Chinese immigrant who came to the U.S. seeking a better tomorrow. She is an artist and photographer, collaborating with artists, institutions, and non-profits to provide art documentation throughout the City of Los Angeles and beyond. She has documented AMBOS’ road trips and interventions via photography since 2016. In 2023, she curated an exhibition of her photographs and archival materials from AMBOS’ time on the road in 2017-2019 for Ordinary People, an exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Clyne studied Fine Art Photography at Otis College of Art & Design.

Karla Aguiñiga

Karla Aguiñiga is a transfronteriza (Mexican/American) artist, educator, and curator from Tijuana, Mexico. Her work as an arts administrator is driven by a desire to create pathways for artists of color of all ages. She coordinated and managed AMBOS Ceramics in Tijuana, Mexico from 2020 to 2024. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Arts in Art Administration and Public Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

juan villavicencio

Juan Villavicencio has been the lead instructor for AMBOS Ceramics since 2020. Lives and works in Tijuana, B.C. His work focuses mainly on ceramics, creating sculptures that refer to the imagery of craft stores, Mexican kitsch, or traditional ornamentation techniques. Her work questions the boundaries between art, craft and design, as well as the visual identity of Mexico's northern border.

Member of the international academy of ceramics (IAC) since 2021.

KATIE MEJIA

Katie Mejia, a first-generation Salvadoran American artist from Los Angeles, is deeply intrigued by food's role in how she expresses her identity. She explores how the interplay between her culture's cuisine, ideologies, and entrepreneurship shapes her community. Her exploration of identity through food motivates her to experiment with materials indigenous to Central America, such as metates (stone slabs) and the "three sisters" (beans, squash, and corn). She is particularly captivated by the historical roots of Mesoamerican culture, and references the idea of taste memory. She collaborated with AMBOS for the Hammer Museum Biennial exhibition, Made in LA, and currently serves as the studio manager for Tanya Aguiñiga. In 2024, Katie graduated with a BA in Arts from Cal State Dominguez Hills.