Camille Barraza

Background

About Camille Barraza

Camille Barraza is a California native of the city of Long Beach and currently resides in El Paso, Texas. Throughout her academic career she has been passionate about all that is arts and community development. As a Community Liaison of the New eXponential Thought Organization (NeXT) in the arts for our US office, she works directly with the arts community to create a consortium of artists in the areas of visual, performing and fine arts. She promotes individual growth and collaboration among the artists involved as well as the development of innovative art that builds on a community’s resources. Dedicated to the arts and developing the community, Camille has been instrumental in crafting the vision for NeXT. She is well versed in the area of dance, excelling in an eight year career in classical ballet and modern tap dance. In the visual arts she regularly attends film festivals and art exhibitions in the United States on behalf of NeXT and has been street artist herself, creating hundreds of large scale stencils and posters over the last six years. Additionally, Camille has written and directed films and is passionate about the production Native American film as a member of the Blackfeet Nation.Her academic areas of study are Psychology, Medical Anthropology, and Documentary Film from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso.