Bargain Basement Sovereign
2012-2013 – Dressed in regalia, this queen invited spectators to present trash “offerings” as an examination of submission and resilience in Latinx culture.
GuerrilleReina
2013 – This performance examined safety, hyper vigilance, and overprotection as byproducts of surviving domestic abuse.
PorcelaReina
2014 – This performance addresses the delicate balance of strength and fragility of motherhood, self care, independence accepting of help in crisis.
GringaReina
2015 – Designed to be presented before live audiences, this queen interrogated Eurocentric beauty standards, the Kardashian phenomenon, and ageism.
Press
Thrower, Michael, “Sovereign: Recent Works by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz”, OPEN Friday, June 9th, 2017 - Duration: 9:08: TV. Web.
Valentin, Rhina, “Sovereign: Recent Works by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz” OPEN Friday, June 9th, 2017. TV.
Cordeiro, Monivette, Ferrante, Deanna, Kubersky, Seth, McCollum, Thaddeus, Moyer, Matthew, & Young, Jessica Bryce, “Fourteen people making Orlando a better place”, Orlando Weekly, February 8, 2017. Web.
Pirani, Jessica, “All Hail the Queen”, Artborne Magazine, December 7, 2016: Web.
Mulvaney, Ciara, “Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz”, Artborne Magazine, September 2016: Print.