Essentials Creative
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Essentials Creative is a multimedia collective that takes inspiration from the concept of the rhizome.
A site-responsive multimedia studio making installations, projections, video, photography, and design for cultural organizations, gardens, and community spaces — grounded in Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian stories. We believe in a non-hierarchical, interconnected approach to creating applied arts experiences. Our projects and events incorporate a range of disciplines, including photography, fashion, graphic design, video, projection, animation, and installation. We provide a platform for underrepresented artists to express themselves and find support within their field, and our team is composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds. We embrace fluidity, diversity, experimentation, and collaboration in all of our projects, blurring the lines between disciplines and fostering a collaborative creative environment. We are proudly Asian-owned, Indigenous-owned, Latin-owned, Woman-owned, and LGBTQ+-owned, and we are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in our work. Contact us today to learn more about our projects and how we can help you bring your vision to life. We are dedicated to creating art that is diverse, dynamic, and thought-provoking.
08/13/2026
https://essentialscreative.com/plant-story-portraits
Plant Story Portraits: A Collage Workshop Free. Saturday, September 5, 2026, noon to 3pm at the Native American Cultural Center, Austin. How do we see ourselves in the plants around us?
07/16/2026
Selected for WaterWork 2026 🌊
Essentials Creative is honored to return for our second year with Design Austin's WaterWork, now in its third year. Alongside 15 other Austin-area artists, our work will join a new wave of projection art lighting up the historic Seaholm Intake Building on Lady Bird Lake.
📍 Seaholm Intake Building, Lady Bird Lake
🗓️ September 25–26, 2026
Presented by , co-created with , with support from the City of Austin Arts, Culture, Music & Entertainment Department and title sponsorship from the Texas Water Development Board.
Feast for All — Native American Culinary Arts, Community Cooking.
On June 27, and .atx gathered people at , with a keynote from Lucille Contreras of .
🎥 by Essentials Creative
· · .atx · ·
05/07/2026
Q***r Out Here Issue 10 / Side A is out
An audio zine exploring the outdoors from q***r perspectives. Side A explores themes of liminality: the betweenness of times and spaces, ways we merge with the more-than-human world, moments of pause and flux in our lives and identities. Side B will be released soon.
Covers by Sixto-Juan Zavala (he/they) — designer, illustrator, storyteller, and returning QOH contributor. Sixto-Juan created the covers using Rhizomatic, an experimental typeface he designed with Misa Yamamoto as collaborators in Essentials Creative for an installation at Chicago Botanic Garden.
On the typeface: “The rhizome is a non-hierarchical structure that allows for multiple outputs without a central structure. An example of a rhizomatic model is the internet; an example of a rhizomatous plant is an iris. The typeface combines geometric and organic forms, referencing digital as well as biological rhizomes. Deleuze and Guattari’s theories of the rhizome have been widely applied by many q***r theorists.”
On the covers: “These designs reference organic forms of plants as well as the digital media we use to create and edit our stories. Plants carry a significant impact in my outdoor experiences so I wanted to feature them in the cover design.”
You can check out more of Sixto-Juan’s work on their website, sjzavala.com
05/01/2026
Plant Story Card lands at CelebrASIA Austin 2026.
A community engagement activity for the Austin Bergstrom International Airport permanent art installation.
Tell us about the plants that hold your stories. Rooted here, carried from elsewhere, still with you now.
Saturday, May 2 · 11 AM to 3 PM
Asian American Resource Center
Performances · food vendors · exhibits · cultural experiences
04/03/2026
The monarchs came back to Mexico this winter. 64% increase this season. Homero Gómez González fought to keep loggers out of these forests. He was found dead in 2020. The butterflies came back to the forests he protected. The ancestors brought them home.
📹 Video Art: Essentials Creative
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