When Paula Mirabal arrived at Taller Puertorriqueño in the city’s Fairhill neighborhood, she got excited: She recognized a woman waiting for the bus outside as indigenous.
“I live in New Mexico,” Mirabal said. “You see native people, people like me, around all the time. We are almost invisible here.”
Mirabal, along with Tailinh Agoyo, directs We Are the Seeds, a nonprofit based in both Philadelphia and Santa Fe that highlights indigenous artists’ work through workshops, showcases, and sales even