Cristina Fletes-Mach

Cristina Fletes-Mach is a painter and documentary storyteller based in St. Louis, Missouri. She is interested in the themes of migration, memory, family and femininity. Her painting series “From” is currently on display in St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

She is currently the Visual Communications Specialist at St. Louis Public Radio and a former Staff Photographer / Videographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was a part of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography awarded to the photography staff at the Post-Dispatch for their coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. 

She received her B.F.A. in Studio Art from Louisiana State University and her Master's in Visual Communication from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She loves her husband, stepkids and cats very, very mucho.