Visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Arias is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) and creator of festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area such as: VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION shows in San Francisco.
He uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects, such as his multidisciplinary shows called DREAMS, or most recently “Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution,” where 24 visual artists and 43 poets from the SF Bay Area have participated.
- Learn more at adrianarias.com
- Sample of Adrian’s work:
From “Fantastic Animals” series, 2020. 
From “Fantastic Animals” series, 2020. 
Dia de Muertos @ SOMArts, San Francisco 
From “Flower Series” 
“Life is a Treasure” @ Machina Loci space in Berkeley. 3-hour live paint improvisation with music by Anais Azul. September 27th 2020. 
“8:46” Altar installation for Day of the Dead at SOMARTS San Francisco, 2020
