Mariel Paat is a San Francisco-based artist and educator from Visalia, CA. She received her BA in studio art and art history with an emphasis in painting from San Francisco State University. Her oil paintings are explorations of her identity as a first generation Filipino-American. She paints objects that are reminiscent of her heritage and upbringing as a way to preserve her and her family’s narratives. She is currently the Filipinx Teaching Artist Fellow at Root Division.