Moon + Crow Collaborative

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Moon + Crow Collaborative is a shared creative and healing-centered collaboration between Esperanza Dodge and Monica Villanueva Holmes, two New Mexico–based Healing Arts Facilitators whose work centers art, wellness, and care within community.

Esperanza Dodge is a Healing Arts Facilitator and mixed media artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work grows out of more than twenty years of community-based practice in reproductive justice, birth justice, creative care, and program development. Her artistic practice is rooted in collage and mixed media, emphasizing intuition, layering, and personal symbolism rather than technical skill. Across both her studio work and the spaces she facilitates, Esperanza uses accessible creative processes to support reflection, self-inquiry, connection, and healing, particularly for people who spend much of their lives caring for others.

Monica Villanueva Holmes is a Healing Arts Facilitator based in Española and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the owner of The Crafty Crow NM. Her work centers culturally grounded creative practice with youth, families, and caregivers, and is informed by ancestral knowledge, ceremony, and holistic approaches to wellbeing. Monica brings extensive experience working with birthworkers and community-based spaces and frames art-making as a way to support learning, empowerment, healing, and connection across generations.

Together, Esperanza and Monica bring complementary experience in creative facilitation, mixed media art, cultural knowledge, and care-centered community engagement. Their collaboration is grounded in long-standing relationships within birthworker, caregiver, BIPOC, family, and youth-serving communities across New Mexico.

Moon + Crow Collaborative offers facilitated, art-centered healing and wellness experiences that support reflection, restoration, self-care, and connection for individuals and communities. Our work uses creative practice as a form of care, particularly for people who spend much of their lives caring for others.

Our offerings include:

• Healing-centered art workshops and creative circles that support emotional wellbeing, self-care, and sustainability for caregivers, birthworkers, families, youth, and community members
• Creative wellness gatherings that blend accessible art-making with grounding, reflection, and gentle integration practices
• Art-as-healing sessions that emphasize process over product and welcome participants with no prior art experience
• Mixed media and collage-based offerings using intuitive art-making, assemblage, creative mapping, journaling, ritual object-making, and visual storytelling
• Themed workshops developed from existing offerings, including rest and renewal, identity and ancestral memory, embodiment and lived experience, and cultivating joy and resilience through creative practice
• One-time workshops or multi-session series designed to support ongoing care, reflection, and community connection over time

Our sessions are portable and adaptable, allowing us to offer healing and wellness-focused creative experiences in community spaces, family-centered environments, educational settings, conferences, and rural locations throughout New Mexico. Across all of our work, Moon + Crow Collaborative understands creativity as a practical and relational form of care that supports individual wellbeing while strengthening community ties and cultural continuity.