Presentation: Juana Alicia

I went through a few artists on the list and did a quick search and Juana Alicia's murals caught my eye. Mostly due to the messages the murals sent. Juana Alicia is a printmaker, muralist, and an activist. She has been an educator for over 30 years. Her teaching ranges from a kindergarten teacher to an university professor. She believes it is her responsibility as an artist to express her activism on social justice and human rights through her art. The mural below Cease Fire/ Alto Fuego (1988) displayed Alicia's frustration with the U.S invasion of Honduras in 1987. Her activism and her voice is clear in her art, and she wants to educate physically and through her public works. 

She has been practicing art since her teenage years and she grew up with the United Farm Workers movement. She specifies in fresco buono, which is an ancient painting technique. She works as an individual and works with a group as well. She comments that working with a group helps her understand the minds and eyes of another person. 

Most of her works are in the Bay Area, but they can also be found Nicaragua and Mexico, as well as other parts in California. She has been a professor of art history, mural painting, and social theory at San Francisco State.