Juana Alicia artworks in Sonoma Valley
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) presents Cenote de Sueños: The Art of Juana Alicia opening on Saturday, September 21, and running through Sunday, January 5, 2025. This exhibition of works by distinguished artist Juana Alicia features paintings, drawings, prints, and an original artist-created book.
While she is best known for her work as a muralist, this exhibition will present her art within the context of a truly multi-disciplinary artist as well as present her most recent illustration project, La X’tabay: The Book of Books (2024), a collaboration with author Tirso González Araiza. Juana Alicia’s 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 equity, environmental crisis and the power of resistance and revolution.
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 San Francisco 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.
Juana Alicia has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Windcall Residency, Master Muralist Award (Precita Eyes), Woman of Fire Award, San Francisco Art Commission Golden Capricorn Award among other recognitions.
The artist divides her time between her studios in Berkeley, California, and Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. During four decades of teaching, Juana Alicia founded and directed several educational institutions that supported young artists. She taught at several universities, including the University of California at Davis and Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, and Stanford University. Now retired from academia, she is engaged in a full-time studio practice.
This exhibition is guest curated by Marco Antonio Flores.
About the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
Established in 1998, the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) is a membership-supported 501(c) 3, non-profit organization that provides seasonal exhibitions of contemporary and modern art and educational and public programming for children, youth, and adults. The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art’s mission: Building Community Around Art.
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is at 551 Broadway, one-half block up from Sonoma’s historic Plaza. Current Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
General admission is $10, free for SVMA members and 18 and under; additional information is available at svma.org or by calling 707.939.SVMA. Wednesday is always free.
