In 2001, Rosa Diaz moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in search of peaceful horizons. She is a Salvadoran-American multidisciplinary artist and the founder of Nativa Studio. Her work is an immersive connection with her Hispanic-Indigenous heritage, and her ancestry traditions as a living legacy.

Her work is deeply inspired by family stories passed down like a legends. Diaz often recalls memories of her grandparents cultivating fields of native indigo plants known locally as “xiquilite” in El Salvador (Indigofera suffruticosa) and extracting from scratch this magical blue pigment from their land. She was also inspired by her grandmother's textile quilts creations, adorned with floral embroideries full of history and resilience, which still influences her work today.

Indigo has long been important in Mesoamerican ceremonial garments and spiritual rituals. To honor this heritage, Diaz uses ancient indigo methods in both her textiles and her hand-built ceramics. She is now researching how to revive "Maya Blue." Through careful testing on her first ceramic tiles, she studies clay bodies, firing temperatures, and organic components to preserve these historic techniques.

With her work, Diaz hopes to offer new generations the calming, healing benefits of working with clay where science and art meet raw earth, and where ancestral knowledge continues to speak.