Irie Zepeda (They/Them) is a Barrio Logan–based printmaker, facilitator, and multidisciplinary artist rooted in community, cultural traditions, and shared creative practices. As the founder of Por La Mano Press, they are committed to accessible, skill-sharing approaches to art-making. Working primarily in relief printmaking and immersive installations, they create community-centered gathering spaces that weave together art, music, and collective expression. Their work explores healing, memory, and intergenerational connection, using creativity as a tool for reflection, care, and shared rejoicing.

Their My Creative Journey Residency explores body and land as interconnected landscapes, tending both our inner landscape and our shared one. As a Promise Zone community, participants will reflect on our environmental realities and weave ancestral memory and care through creative workshops and a community connection fair with local land stewards, healing practitioners, and food growers.

Through these events and experiences, participants will gain insight and tools for individual and collective healing.

The residency will culminate in an immersive exhibition where community insights are shared, tools and knowledge are displayed, and participants creatively engage with the outcomes of our shared journey, celebrating collective healing through music, art, and more.