About

Marisa de la Peña is an artist, researcher, and recent graduate from the Department of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current work revolves around the role of horror in art and media and its power to subvert settler colonialism. From reappropriating the tropes that have rendered Indigeneity invisible to engaging with methods of edible storytelling. The creation of desserts are multifaceted conversation on dispossession and consumption but is also meant to nourish and haunt audiences involved. Her work has been published and featured in Cake Zine, Taschen Books, Harper Collins, and DC Shoes. She received her BFA in Textiles from the California College of the Arts.

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First pop up edible art show is complete! Thank you to all that came out to astro desserts opening and making it so successful that we were out desserts less than an hour in! It makes me so happy that this project brought so many people together, cau
Real cakes for celebration and completion. Finally at the end of a fall quarter, so had to make some real cakes. There is something really lovely about this kind of practice, it makes me feel more connected to my late Abuela. When we would spend late
Venus in Capricorn v.2 with mariposa medicine. ❤️ 🦋 🎂 (Ultra suede, seed beads, glass, silver, spell, bay leaf)
Venus in Capricorn Cake with Venus medicine. Sweet pedestals for desire and devotion. Been thinking deeply on what it means to embody and encase offerings. Apple seeds in the folds of ultra suede, chuparosa in “frosting”, boundaries creat