Artist Juana Alicia and exhibition curator Marco Antonio Flores will discuss Juana Alicia’s significant contributions to the Bay Area mural scene and her new project La X’tabay: The Book of Books created in collaboration with author Tirso González Araiza.
Sunday, October 13, 3 PM
$20 for SVMA members / $25 for non-members.
Pre-registration is closed. Tickets may be available at the door.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Juana Alicia was born in 1953 in Newark, NJ and has been based in the Bay Area since 1973. Alicia is a key figure in the Chicano Art movement and her murals can been seen across the globe, and in the Bay Area at notable sites such as The Women’s Building, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, University of California in Santa Cruz, and numerous other locations. Her highly political work has deep ties to activism and comments on the injustices we grapple with, particularly through the intersectional lenses of decolonization, feminism, and Mexican and Indigenous identity, as well as hope for a more equitable and just world. Juana Alicia spends time between Berkeley and Mérida, Yucatán.
Marco Antonio Flores is a doctoral student at Stanford University where he specializes in modern and contemporary art of the United States and Latin America. In 2019, he curated staring at the sun, a solo exhibition featuring rafa esparza at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Flores received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a second M.A. from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art.