Margarita Blanco is a writer and teacher living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where education, art, and community constantly overlap. She teaches English Language Arts at Monte del Sol Charter School and founded Nextus, a music and arts collective born from the belief that creative spaces should feel like living rooms—loud, intimate, and alive.
Her work extends beyond borders. In collaboration with Kwago, an independent publishing lab in the Philippines, she helped design creative classes at the intersection of technology, storytelling, and access. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Western Philosophy at St. John’s College, reading the Great Books while writing her own.
Blanco is at work on a memoir that confronts fragile masculinity, memory, and survival—using fragments, images, and lyric prose to tell the story of what breaks and what remains. She dreams of building writing and craft workshops for teens and working alongside other artists to create spaces where young people are invited not just to learn, but to make, question, and belong.
In Service of ARTists
Vital Spaces supports local, emerging & BIPOC artists and is inclusive of artists of all ages, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, and countries of origin. By providing affordable space, we provide venues for artists who might not otherwise know one another to come together in community and collaboration. We work to share this collaborative energy with the broader Santa Fe public through our programming.