He/Him

Carlos Contreras is a poet, painter, father, educator, and student - Contreras was a member of the Kellogg Foundation's Inaugural class of Community Leadership Network Fellows. Having served as the Director of Marketing for the City of Albuquerque and Mayor Tim Keller, Contreras is also a nationally awarded performance poet, published author, and featured visual artist in the Albuquerque Museum's permanent collection "Common Ground" - his life's work has centered around the creation of space and time for communities of all kinds. He the co-founder of Art on the Rio - Contreras is one half of the duo of creatives  that’s delivered a virtual space - a place for art and artists to continue to thrive, and a partnership opportunity for Albuquerque’s small business community to be a part of. This was in part a project grown out of his Sole Proprietorship, Immastar Productions - a 20yr old consultancy focused on catalyzing situations with creative people, approaches, and solutions. Contreras is about connections: people to people, institutions to each other, and his city of Albuquerque, to the world. 

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Research Interests

I am interested in the place and space for the Chicano Bisexual male in a world in a culture ripe with machismo, and the division caused by continued inquiry into Chicano/a culture - I am interested in the missing stories of people like myself.

Research Topics

Methodology/Methodologies of the Oppressed | Ethnography