Scorched Feet

Scorched Feet/Pies Quemados is a bilingual, experimental broadside that focuses on issues of climate change and politics from the perspective of immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ cultural producers. It is the beginning of a conversation between local artists in Minneapolis with artists connected to issues around the world.

In the 16th century a broadside was traditionally a large sheet of paper printed on one side meant to be plastered on walls and used for proclamations, street literature, ballads, and ephemera. The Dunlap Broadside was the first publication of the United States Declaration of Independence, printed July 4, 1776.

Artists Alexa Horochowski, and R Yun Matea (formerly Keagy) founded Scorched Feet in the aftermath of the political turmoil and social upheaval of 2016-2020. Events such as the construction of the “the Wall” at the Mexican border, the Covid-19 pandemic, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and the storming of the Capitol have all occurred in the United States but point to pressures rising from climate change and increasing social inequality around the world.

To download a free copy of Vol. 1, please visit www.alexahorochowski.com.

Featured artists Vol. 1: Leslie Fernández Barrera (Concepción, Chile), Tia Simone-Gardner (Saint Paul, MN), Alexa Horochowski (Minneapolis, MN), Joe Gonzalez (Concepción, Chile) R. Yun Keagy (Minneapolis, MN), Camila Leiva (Minneapolis, MN)

In the second edition, editors Alexa Horochowski and R Yun Matea gathered artworks and literature that articulate and ignite the concept of ritual witchcraft and healing in times of climate change.

Featured artists Vol. 2: Sonia E. Barrett, Vania Carlo Melo, Brad Kahlhamer, Caroline Kent, Stevie Ada Klaark, Caroline Opazo Riveros, Lela Pierce, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Sun Yun Shin, Calvin Stalvig, and Corinne Teed.