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Brenda Barrios also known as BB (1998–present) is a filmmaker, muralist, painting, performer, photographer, and murals. She is known for works focusing on justice movement such as work conditions Mexican Americans face and Black Lives Matters. She shows the importance of expressing social justice through art by showing the impacts her work creates. Biography (or Early Life and Education) Brenda Barrios was born and raised in Pasadena, California, USA, and is a first- generation Mexican American. After graduating from Pasadena High School in Pasadena she then began to attend Pasadena Community College. Later she transferred to the University of Los Angeles in the school of the Arts and Architecture department. As a third-year art transfer students she adds messages pertaining to current events. In 2020 she partnered with Rock the Vote to promote Voting with Latino Communities.

Art (or Notable Works or Selected Works. Also Exhibitions, Projects, Collections) •	Mom Working (2020) about being an essential worker with no medical insurance was displayed in places such London, U.K, and New York. The Amplifier nonprofit organization financed the illustration. •	Project Farmworkers (2020) about the unstable and hazardous conditions farmworkers have to endure. Fifty percent of the proceeds the printmaker made went the The Farmworker Project organization. The project raised $30,000 for hazard pay for the workers. •	Black Lives Matter (2020) was displayed at the Fruitvale Station and Oakland. Exhibitions

•	Amplifier Art award Exhibition: Public Health and safety (Covid19) message display in London U.K and New York  2020. •	Black Lives Matter Mural: For Pasadena CA with compassionate Arts 2020 •	PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY (Family Free Sunday) Lead Artist in a ‘free chalking zone’ during Pasadena Chalk Festival 25-Year Retrospective Exhibition 2018 •	Pasadena ART Night.: MINI GRANT AWARD City Artist 2017 •	Playhouse District Pasadena CA Third Thursday Live Mural 2018 •	Mexico City Mexico 2017 •	ZONA ROSA CAFÉ Annual participant in Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition/Events 2013-2018 •	PASADENA CHALK FESTIVAL Multi-year artist participant and media spokesperson LIVE on TV 2017 •	Picture this Gallery in Long Beach - Frida Kahlo artist exhibit 2016 •	ViVA la Mujer Art event at the MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN Art (MOLAA) 2015 •	Plaza De La Raza Los Angeles Ca 2018 •	Pasadena Art + Design Open Market at OLD Town Pasadena CA •	SGIA EXPO - art screen printing competition at Las Vegas NV Self Help Graphics and art award screen printing Competition. 2017-2018

References 1.	https://www.loc.gov/item/2020632269/

2.	https://dailybruin.com/2020/10/29/with-bold-strokes-student-uses-her-art-as-medium-for-activism

3.	http://pcccourier.com/main-story/art-activism-alumna-brenda-barrios-ucla-rock-the-vote.html

4.	https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/free-fun-activities-throughout-the-playhouse-district/

5.	https://community.amplifier.org/members/itsbb/

Further reading •	www.brendabarrios.com External links •	https://www.instagram.com/bbarrios/?hl=en Instagram link