19 Facts About Juana Alicia

Juana Alicia was born on 1953 and is an American muralist, printmaker, educator, activist and, painter.

Juana Alicia was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1953.

Juana Alicia grew up in an African American community near the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan.

Juana Alicia received her Single Subjects Credential in Art Education in 1980.

In 1972, Juana Alicia was recruited by labor organizer Cesar Chavez on one of his national speaking tours, to work for the United Farmworkers Union as an artist.

Juana Alicia moved to Salinas, California during the peak of the United Farm Worker Movement.

Juana Alicia worked for Interharvest, a United Fruit-owned lettuce company.

Juana Alicia worked up until September 1976 in the fields but then stopped because at the time she was seven months pregnant with her son and was exposed to pesticide poisoning.

Juana Alicia's son was born in December 1976 and she never went back to work in the fields.

Juana Alicia has taught at Stanford University, University of California Santa Cruz, University of California Davis, San Francisco State University, and Berkeley City College.

Juana Alicia came up with a design and immediately she faced criticism that seemed insensitive and racist, but she stood by her work and the design was approved and became the final mural.

Juana Alicia wanted viewers, especially American viewers, to think about where their food comes from and who is involved in its production.

Juana Alicia has tried several times to raise money to restore the mural, although she would prefer to do a permanent mosaic based on the mural in its place.

Juana Alicia's Alto al Fuego is a mural which deals with the subject of violence.

Juana Alicia created her in the spring of 2004 at the corners of York and 24th Streets.

Juana Alicia is the founder and director of the True Colors Mural Project.

In 2007, Stanford's Centro Chicano wrote to Juana Alicia, offering a new commission for the Centro.

Juana Alicia proposed an exterior mural that resembled her work she had recently created for the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco and in Mexico at the Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana.

Juana Alicia began the process by creating new murals for the Centro Chicano.