Information provided by the Artist: Juana Alicia has been creating murals, prints, sculptures, illustrations, and studio paintings for over thirty years. Her style, akin to genres of contemporary Latin American literary movements, can be characterized as magical and social realism, and her work addresses issues of social justice, gender equality, environmental crisis, and the power of resistance. The artist has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Windcall Residency, a Master Muralist Award (Precita Eyes), and a California Arts Council Legacy Artist Award, among other recognitions. Her sculptural and painted public commissions (individual and collaborative) can be seen in Nicaragua, Mexico, Pennsylvania, and California, notably in San Francisco. They include SANARTE at U.C.S.F. Medical Center, SANTUARIO at SFO, LA LLORONA'S SACRED WATERS in Mission San Francisco's Mission District, the MAESTRAPEACE mural of San Francisco Women’s Building, and the GEMELOS mural in Mérida, Yucatán, México.