Tapiz Celestial is an ongoing collaborative project that engages with community building through shared ancestral knowledge and conversation. Corn is one of Turtle Island’s (American continents’) eldest and most important crops. It has lineage to many indigenous nations and communities and is often revered as a gift from the heavens. Like many of our ancestors, this plant has prevailed against many odds. Corn husks are often used as a material to make crafts like dolls, fans, and wreaths. However, they are widely known for their use in the Mexican dish tamales. Tamales, an ancestral Indigenous food, is a steamed corn dish made with masa, often filled with chicken, pork or cheese, wrapped in corn husks and other fillings. The act of making tamales is often a communal act of labor where families and friends share conversations or chisme. Like the communal act of making tamales, Tapiz Celestial invited community members from the San Bernardino and IE adjacent counties to participate in this communal making. Workshops invited folks to embroider their cornhusks while sharing conversations of day-to-day life, or knowledge passed down by their ancestors. The communal machine-sewn piece of Tapiz Celestial creates a celestial map that ties the ancestral heavens with the sewn labor of those who participated in this project.