Cenote de Sueños: The Art of Juana Alicia

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Juana Alicia is a multidisciplinary artist who has resided in California since a very young age. For the past two decades she has divided her time between California and Mérida, Yucatán. She studied her master’s degree in fine arts and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. Her work as a muralist, studio painter, sculptor, designer and educator is widely known in the San Francisco Bay Area and although the bulk of her public art work is concentrated in that city, she has also created monumental works in other parts of California, Pennsylvania, as well as in countries such as Nicaragua and Mexico. Some of the public art commissions she has completed include SANARTE at the University of San Francisco Medical Center, SANCTUARY at the San Francisco International Airport and MAESTRAPEACE, the mural at the Women’s Building. She collaborated with Tirso Gonzalez Araiza in the design and creation of the mural GEMELOS, a mural in relief, on the façade of the graphic design building of the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Mérida, Yucatán. She was awarded the Fulbright/García Robles scholarship and collaborated with the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán in the CENOTE DE SUEÑOS mural project in 2006-07. Her painting and graphic work has been exhibited in different galleries in the United States and Mexico.