La Llorona project, San Francisco

Juana Alicia finished her new mural titled “La Llorona’s Sacred Waters” in June of 2004 at the corners of York and 24th Streets. With fiscal sponsorship by The San Francisco Women’s Center and the Galeria de la Raza, the support of Las Trenzas Latina Student and Alumnae Organization of UC Berkeley, and funding from The [...]

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A Woman’s Place

A WOMAN’S PLACE: A WARRIOR IN THE STRUGGLE FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY/EL LUGAR DE LA MUJER: UNA GUERRILLA EN LA LUCHA PARA LA SOLIDARIDAD INTERNACIONAL
Bridging the gaps of language, culture and gender is a thrilling and difficult endeavor. The mural project that the United Electrical Workers Union proposed to me in 1998 was conceived as a [...]

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Santuario

“Santuario/Sanctuary” at San Francisco International Airport
Santuario is a collaborative work between Juana Alicia and Emmanuel C. Montoya, located at the new international terminal of the San Francisco International Airport. The collaborative work, a two-story fresco framed by a suite of bas relief sculptures, will be open to the public for the first time on Sunday, [...]

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