Juana Alicia
Mediums: Mosaics, Murals, Painting, Sculpture
Artist's Work
Artist's Bio
Biography for Juana Alicia,
Juana Alicia has been painting murals and teaching for thirty years. Her sculptural and painted public works can be seen in Nicaragua, Mexico, Pennsylvania and in many parts of California, most notably in San Francisco. Her work is associated with the greatest artistic and political achievements of the Chicano movement. She has a large body of public work in San Francisco, and has also painted in Mexico, Cuba and Central America.
Juana Alicia has taught at Stanford University, U.C. Santa Cruz, U.C. Davis and San Francisco State University, and is currently full time faculty at Berkeley City College, where she founded and directs a public art program entitled True Colors Murals. Dedicated to the development of young artists, she co-founded and co-directed the San Francisco Early Childhood School for the Creative Arts and the East Bay Center for Urban Arts. Through her teaching, she has helped to foster several generations of young muralists and activist artists.
She works in many media, including traditional acrylic murals, true fresco, mosaic tile and ceramic relief sculptural murals. Her recent public commissions SANARTE at U.C.S.F. Medical Center, SANTUARIO (with Emmanuel Montoya) at the San Francisco International Airport, LA LLORONA'S SACRED WATERS at 24th and York Streets in the Mission of San Francisco, and GEMELOS (with Araiza) at the Metropolitan Technical University in Mérida, Mexico. This was one of two murals created during her Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico. Her newest completed work, a bas relief mural entitled, HUEHUETLATOLI: WISDOM OF THE ELDERS, is currently slated for installation at University and Sacramento in Berkeley, California. She is recognized for the power of her style and content. She is currently designing a new mural for Stanford University’s Centro Chicano.
