Juana Valdes was born on 1963 and is a multi-disciplinary artist and an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
11 Facts About Juana Valdes
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Juana Valdes's works examine Afro-Cuban migration through the lens of material culture and personal experience.
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Juana Valdes was born in Cabanas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba in 1963.
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Juana Valdes migrated to Miami with her mother, brother and sister in 1971; her father arrived a year later.
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Juana Valdes's work is, in part, informed by this early experience of migration, her childhood memories of Cuba, and adjusting to life in the United States.
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From 2002 to 2005 Juana Valdes participated in the Artist-Teacher MFA program in the Visual Arts Department at Vermont College of Norwich University.
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Between 2005 and 2010 Juana Valdes taught Studio Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York before joining the faculty at Florida Atlantic University as an assistant professor of Printmaking in the Department of Visual Arts and Art History from 2010 to 2015.
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In 2015, Juana Valdes was an associate professor of Printmaking in the Department of Art in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was awarded tenure.
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Juana Valdes's work is held in museums and private collections throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Newark Museum of Art, and the Perez Art Museum Miami.
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Juana Valdes has received several awards from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1995, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund for the Arts grant in 2016, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Cuban Artist Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts, Netherland-America Foundation, Faculty Research Mentoring Program, Lifelong Learning Society, Oolite Arts Ellies Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Anonymous Was A Woman Award, among others.
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Juana Valdes created The Colored Rag series by adding skin-toned powder pigments in the clay prior to firing, thereby manipulating its chemical composition and changing its color.