Current Projects

Un Caracol: From The Ashes, We Will Rise!

This zine shares the unraveling of events that have occurred on 2588 Mission St. from the first fire in 2015 till today.

The Caracol or Spiral diagram takes a non westernized approach to understanding time and the way the events of the past inform our collective present and future.

Download the zine before and check out the compiled source list!

Memory Archive for 2588 Mission St. - Mission Market

I am looking to document and archive memories, dreams, and acts of resistance related to the building that once stood on 2588 Mission St, the Mission Market. This archive will be used to inform my next print where I reimagine what the property could look like instead of the current proposed 10 story market rate building. In exchange for your memory I will send you a 5x7 postage screenprinted sticker.

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

Photo by Sarai Montes

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.