Luna Vela is a Mexico-born, Texas-raised interdisciplinary artist and chef whose work lives at the border between myth and memory while honoring the land and people that have cared for her, continue to shape her.

Working across kitchens, fields, performance spaces, galleries, films, and cultural organizations, she explores the alchemical process of ancestral knowledge such as fermentation, calcination, and fire, as shared logistics across the body, the land, and folk traditions of the Texas and Mexico diaspora. Luna is deeply inspired by fairytales, folklore, science fiction, Catholicism, pre-Hispanic cosmology, and queer futurity.

She is the founder of Neighborhood Molino, a community-based nixtamal research and education initiative rooted in Austin, TX. Her work has always aimed to nurture the communities she's in relation with, providing access to traditional foodways in creative ways. This work has been supported by NALAC Fund for the Arts, the James Beard Foundation, and the City of Austin.

Her culinary work has been featured by A24, Texas Monthly, LA Times, KQED, PUNCH, NYFA, Eater Austin, and more.