Yumi Rodriguez

Teaching Artist

Yumarlin Rodriguez, otherwise known as Yumi, is a small human with a very big heart. Yumi has a deep love for animals, exploring, and the natural world. Yumi works in a wide range of mediums including performance, sculpture, photography, animation, painting, and drawing, to name a few. She is dedicated to utilizing these skills, in combination with arts communication and her passions for the environment and the socio-cultural sphere, to provide access to the arts to her Dominican-American community of Washington and Hamilton Heights. Yumi came to Creative Art Works through her work with the Audubon Mural project, a public art initiative in Upper Manhattan dedicated to raising awareness of the hundreds of bird species threatened by climate change. When she isn’t creating, she can be found bending her body every which way as a certified yoga instructor, caring for animals as a Licensed Veterinary Technician, or at the biology lab where she assists with biological research. Yumi graduated from The Cooper Union’s School for the Advancement of Art and Science in the summer of 2022, where she has fostered her cross disciplinary approaches to teaching as a social practice.