Juana Alicia
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Ana Alicia is an internationally renowned muralist, printmaker, educator, activist and painter. She has taught for thirty years, working in many areas of education, from community organizing to migrant and bilingual education to arts education; and from kindergarten to graduate school levels. She has expressed it is her responsibility as an artist to be an activist for social justice, human rights and environmental health. She began working as an artist as a teenager, coming of age in the human rights movements that included the United Farm Workers and the protests of the war in Vietnam. She works in many forms and traditions. Most of her public art works are found in the San Francisco Bay area but she has also painted murals in other parts of the world. Ana Alicia is based in Berkeley, California.
From the description of The Juana Alicia Collected Works Digitized Art Collection,1983-2006. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 318508719
Juana Alicia (1953- ) is a painter, printmaker, and educator in Berkeley, Calif.
Juana Alicia is among the leading Chicana muralists in California and a major figure in Bay Area Chicana and women's movements. Among her commissions is a mural done with her partner Emmanuel C. Montoya at the San Francisco International Airport. Uses only her forenames; does not use her last name.
From the description of Oral history interview with Juana Alicia, 2000 May 8 and July 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81163252
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- African American artists
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- Mexican American women
- Muralists
- Women artists
- Women printmakers
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