DDLM Brooklyn Friday the 9th

DATE CHANGE FOR OUR DIA DE LOS MUERTOS SHOW! Due to subway conditions (that are now getting back to normal) we moved our show to this coming Friday the 9th. Bring the family, bring flowers or any item you want for our community altar! 

Dia de los Muertos Brooklyn
Friday 9th
7-11pm
Parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church
411 46th st between 4th and 5th aves 
Sunset Park Brooklyn
Performances by Ase Music
Dress warm! It will be chilly but we will have space indoors at La Casita Comunal. Food, drinks will be served and art will be for sale! 

email me if you have any questions: minchovega@gmail.com 

Dia de los Muertos Show & Community Altar Nov. 2nd 2012

Dia De from Barrio Media on Vimeo.

Don't miss our 2nd Annual Dia de los Muertos Installation show Friday Nov. 2nd in Sunset Parque (Park) that I'm doing with the homie Adrian Viajero Roman this year. Please feel free to invite your loved ones (alive or not) and please bring something for our community altar for your people that have passed away. Watch the video for details. Love and Muertos.

Ink, Pencil, & Charcoal on Watercolor Paper

Self Portrait Knives

I've been taking this drawing studio class at NYU (got into the Arts Education Masters program) this summer and this is one little project they had us do. For the class I've been illustrating a lot of knives, both because I like them and I just needed objects to practice drawing. Enjoy.

Big Grass

Painted some big grass at this elementary school here in Brooklyn. I might go back and paint some more grass in the room, I liked how it turned out. The teachers there are planning to make this classroom into some green house to grow plants.

Hey people, so I recently took part in this fundraiser for the NY organization Urban Arts Partnership. They had partnered with a shoe company, Canvas Shoes and had hella famous people make shoes. People like Cee-Lo, Lee Quinones, Mariah Carey, etc. Since the arts org works with youth they contacted the high school I work in and got some of my students to design some shoes. They threw me in there for kicks and I made this. I named her "La Dina". You could see the shoe as they looked before and when I finished them. Hopefully someone put some money down to help out that organization and bought my dino.

New Large Illustration

Hello friends, it has been a minute since my last post. I am more active on my Instagram account, you can find me by my name Ben Rojas. Look me up and check out my images. 


Other than that waste of time app, I am slowly working on some new stuff and some stuff I haven't finished. The new stuff is on some dark red paper, all pencil and charcoal. Based on the native homie Red Dawn from Arizona. The whole piece is pretty large, 40 x 26 inches. A costly frame would have to bought when I plan to show this piece. I have another sheet of this paper, so I'm going to illustrate a partner to this one. Let me know what you think.