Photo by Sarai Montes
About the Artist…
Alejandra Rubio is a printmaker, cultural curator, and community advocate from San Francisco. She is critical of societal norms and their impact on marginalized people and is fascinated by the power of radical imagination through the act of dreaming and creating art.
This has led her to pursue a career as an arts educator for the last two years working with children, youth, and adults. She was most recently awarded the YBCA Creative Corp Grant where she launched her own youth arts program, Creative Seeds of Activism. She mentored 10 local youth as they developed their own Art and Activism posters that were then displayed in Puerto Alegre, a local business. She has been a cultural bearer with Arte Unidos for the last 3 years sustaining the legacy of this project by collaborating with local businesses and providing solo shows to local marginalized artists.
She is currently the 2024-2025 R.A.I.C.E.S. Fellow at Galeria de la Raza, where she is working on creating a body of work reflective of her experience having grown up in the Mission and Bayview regions.
Current Projects
R.A.I.C.E.S. (Reimagining Art in Community Education Spaces) Fellow with Galeria de La Raza
2024 - 2025
Through this opportunity I am focusing on housing, gentrification, and examples of community care in the Mission and Bayview districts of San Francisco. I have followed local issues closely and am finding ways to leverage my artistic practice to empower issues related to housing.
Follow my progress on instagram! @alejandraaaa415
Arte Unidos - Community Curation Project
Interested in having your own solo show at Taqueria Pancho Villa or El Cafetazo?
This opportunity is free and open to all artists, priority goes to historically excluded, marginalized, and local BIPOC Artists.