Martha Ramirez-Oropeza is a mural painter, a performer in popular theatre, and a researcher/lecturer of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of Mexico. She was vice-director of the Mascarones Theatre Group for 32 years, and designed and co-founded the Nahuatl University pyramid campus in Ocotepec, Morelos, Mexico. She apprenticed under master muralist David A. Siqueiros, Guillermo Monroy in the Fine Arts Institute, and, more recently, under Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca. She conducts international Nahuatl Culture seminars in Mexico and lectures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also an artist in residence at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, and is a performing and visual arts teacher for children in a Spanish total immersion school in Santa Monica, California.
