Juana Alicia works in many different media to create both discrete and public works of art including drawing, printmaking, small-format painting, monumental acrylic, fresco, tile and sculptural murals.
Her work evolved from the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District, whose mural renaissance is legendary, to installations in other parts of the U.S. and Latin America. She lives and works in Berkeley, California and Mérida, Yucatán, México. Her many public works include the Sanctuary/Santuario fresco mural at the San Francisco International Airport, the SANARTE tile murals at UCSF Medical Center and suite of murals at Stanford University, THE SPIRAL WORD.
Her current projects include the illustration of a graphic novel, La X’taabay, and a bas-relief glass window for the Mission Branch Public Library of San Francisco. She seeks to create more and more architectonic and sculptural works in a cityscape with an increasingly green and sustainable urban vision.
- Learn more at juanaalicia.com
- A sample of Juana’s work:
CUARENTENA/QUARANTINE, illustration for upcoming graphic novel, LA X’TAABAY, drawing on scratchboard, 24” x 24”, Juana Alicia © 2020. 
SANTUARIO/SANCTUARY, completed fresco (with sculpture by Emmanuel Catarino Montoya), 19’ x 23’, International Terminal G, Gate Room 98, © 1999, World Rights Reserved.
Photo: rik clingerman.
THE SPIRAL WORD: EL CODEX ESTANFOR, MAYAN SCRIBE, mural suite at Stanford’s El Centro Chicano murals, Juana Alicia ©2012 
NOPAL DE LA MISION, Watercolor Proposal for the Mission Branch Library Window, 36” x 50”, Juana Alícia ©2020 
SANARTE: Diversity’s Pathway/Sendero de la diversidad, four ceramic bas-relief murals, ceramic tile frieze, and cement sidewalk. Original work owned and commissioned by the University of California. Ambulatory Care Clinic, UCSF Medical Center, 400 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, Juana Alicia © 2005. Photo: Anobel Odisho
