Selected Publications & Media

Mujeres de Maíz: En Movimiento

University of Arizona Press • 2024

Featured artwork in the chapter "The Will of the Water." This anthology, centered on spiritual artivism, healing justice, and Chicana/Indigenous feminist praxis, brings together essays, poetry, and visual art from over two decades of movement work. Includes full-color artwork by Mariela and reproduction on the cover.

Plant Magick – The Library of Esoterica

Taschen (Cologne, Germany) • August 2023

Three original oil paintings selected for publication in the chapters Healing Botanicals, Peyote and San Pedro, and Ayahuasca of this internationally acclaimed volume exploring sacred plant traditions and esoteric history.

DoubleBlind Magazine – Issue #8

March 2023

Cover artwork and a six-page illustrated feature exploring Mariela's sacred feminine archetypes, visionary paintings, and healing-centered artistic practice.

Medicine Catalogue – Mapping the Garden

Publication in preparation

Painting Ayahuasca at the Gates of San Pedro featured in the chapter "Flower: Expressing Diverse Abundance." A collaborative publication presenting sacred art and poetic expression alongside internationally recognized visionary artists.

System Catalogue – Seeding the Map: A Living Ecologue

Publication in preparation

Painting La Machi featured in the chapter "Membrane: Sentient Circle," exploring ecological consciousness, sacred systems, and ritual healing through visionary art.

High Times Magazine

"Women of the Earth" • October 2007

Featured in Valerie Corral's article recognizing women working with botanical traditions, natural healing, and visionary art.

Tea Party Magazine

Cover Feature • Summer 1999

Cover artwork and a four-page feature by David Pang highlighting Mariela's life as a community-based visionary artist and her spiritual art practice in Northern California.

We'Moon '98 – Wise Woman Ways

1997

Featured artwork in Chapter XII: Soothsayers and Shapeshifters of the internationally recognized annual calendar celebrating feminine wisdom, ritual, and natural cycles.

Wheels of the Year 1997

Amber Lotus Publishing • 1996

A calendar featuring twelve original symbolic paintings inspired by Pre-Columbian spiritual cosmologies, seasonal cycles, meditation, and sacred timekeeping.

Revista Nuevo Horizonte

No. 23 • August 23, 1996

Feature profile in the Arte y Cultura section highlighting Mariela's work as a painter, muralist, educator, and visionary artist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Diario El Reportero

San Francisco • 1995

Featured in the Arte & Entretenimiento section for her visionary painting and healing-centered artistic practice within the Bay Area's Latinx artistic community.

Uncoiling the Snake

Vicki Noble • HarperSanFrancisco • 1993

Original illustration published in this influential work exploring women's spirituality, dreams, ritual, and ancient goddess traditions.

Diario San Francisco LATINO

October 15, 1993

Feature article, "Con Mariela de la Paz: Imágenes y símbolos mapuches en la plástica," examining Mariela's work as a bridge between Indigenous symbolism and contemporary Latinx art.

Shakti Woman

Vicki Noble • HarperSanFrancisco • 1991

Original illustration published in this foundational work on female shamanism, spiritual empowerment, and sacred feminine traditions.

El Mercurio

"Feminino" Section • April 8, 1988

Feature article, "Colors of the World of Water," introducing Mariela's early marine-inspired paintings based on her years in Guam. Includes portrait and full-color reproductions.

Revista Mundo

No. 65 • April 1988

Early Chilean feature introducing Mariela's symbolic paintings and emerging artistic voice to a national audience.