{"id":40717,"date":"2018-11-19T13:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=40717"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:48:45","slug":"force-of-nature-feature-camila-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/social\/force-of-nature-feature-camila-rosa","title":{"rendered":"Force of Nature Feature: Camila Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer we published <\/span>Force of Nature\u2014a Collection of Art & Stories Celebrating Fearless Women<\/span>. \u00a0Brazilian freelance illustrator Camila Rosa was one of the featured contributing artists. She recently took the time out of her busy schedule to talk with us about her art and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is she?<\/b><\/p>\n

She\u2019s a 29-year old illustrator living in her hometown of Joinville, Brazil with plans to move to S\u00e3o Paulo soon. She began exploring illustration around 2010, when she joined a female street art collective called Coletivo Ch\u00e1. In 2016, she moved to New York and had the opportunity to work as a full-time illustrator. \u201cI did illustrations for Bust Magazine. It was my first magazine, and it was amazing! It was like a dream. I also did some work for Refinery29. After that, my life became crazy. A lot of companies started to talk to me about my art. I stayed in New York for a year and half. Then I returned to Brazil where I am now working as a full-time illustrator. In Brazil it\u2019s very hard to live on an artist\u2019s salary. So, this is really nice opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you get into making the type of art that you do?<\/b><\/p>\n

After high school, I went to college for design. I then started working as a product designer at a company in my hometown designing trophies. I was the only one in the department of design. I started getting tired of it. So, I started with the street art collective (Coletivo Ch\u00e1). It was my first\u00a0<\/span>experience with real art. People were asking us to do workshops in other towns, asking us to create portraits for International Women\u2019s Day. After that I decided I wanted to focus on illustration. In my hometown, art is nothing. It\u2019s a very industrial city and we don\u2019t have any opportunities to work with art. So, I moved to S\u00e3o Paulo. I started to work at a small illustration and design studio. After I left that job, I started doing freelance work and I started selling my work online. When I lived in New York I had time to create. My husband went to work, I went to school to learn English and started to illustrate again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your work is known for featuring strong, brave and diverse women. Can you speak to that?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s very important to show diversity on posters and magazines and it\u2019s hard to find. In Brazil, diversity in models started to appear three years ago. Before that we didn\u2019t have Black women or men in magazines. I think that companies are thinking about that more now. They think about how this is important. They know they need to put this on their brand. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just about money, but it\u2019s cool. We need to put this out there so that young kids can see these people who look like them. When you are young it\u2019s good to see similar people in magazines and outdoors. I hope that this becomes a common thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where do you find inspiration?<\/b><\/p>\n

Actually, everything inspires me. It\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but it\u2019s real. Walking down the street is an inspiration. Listening to music is an inspiration. I get a lot of inspiration from the punk scene, from Brazil, from groups like Women\u2019s Resistance. Feminism, LGBTQ, veganism\u2026 After I started reading about these topics, it changed my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you spend time outdoors?<\/b><\/p>\n

On the weekends, I like to go to nature. Maybe climb a mountain. In my hometown, there are a lot of places to climb. Nature has inspired me so much. I also like to walk a lot. In New York I walked everywhere. Walking is important for me \u00a0because it helps me stay calm. When I walk I forget everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Follow Camila\u2019s work on Instagram, <\/span>@camixvx<\/span><\/a> and for more female forward reads, events and outings, visit <\/span>Force of Nature<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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