Welcome / Bienvenidos

I'm Alejandra. I love painting and that is why I decided to create this website to make my art public and accessible to everyone. I graduated from CSU Monterey Bay earning a B.A. in the Integrated Studies Special Program. My focus was Visual Arts and History of the Americas. I have also applied to the Counselor Education program at San Jose State, and hopefully I'll get in.

The main objective of this web space is to display my art works, (paintings) and some of the pieces that are still in progress. I'm also a mother of a beautiful 3 year old daughter who has become my greatest inspiration and my model as well.

I am very interested in Chicana Art, and that is why I chose that to be my webstie title, because I am Chicana and I'm also an artist that wants to create beautiful art for a social/environmental purpose of educating, raising awareness and creating change, not just to decorate. I am also very proud of my Purepecha heritage. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like it.

Enjoy!

email me at: lafrida.@. yahoo.com

Catholic Ceremonies in the lives of Latinas, 2004 (capstone project)

Exhibited at the CSU Monterey Bay Library on 7/02/04

Friday, March 04, 2005

Ms. Patricia Arias' Painting, 2004

Finally, I was able to post an image of the painting I completed for the Arias' family last year in 2004. They were very nice to me and patiently waited for me to complete it.i am so happy. i felt i was never going to finish that painting because it had so much detail and it had already taken me so much time, when i had calculated that it would only take me about a couple of months.

yesterday my mom, my daughter Celeste and myself went over to the Arias' home to drop off the painting and have dinner with them. i was still a little nervous about it, but they seemed to be very happy with it. i am so happy that i had this opportunity and i am very thankful to them for having faith in me and for believing in myself as an artist. i sometimes feel so insecure about myself as an artist that this whole experience helped me grow much more as a person and specially as an artist.

Thank you so much Dr. Arias and Patricia!!!!! you two were the first ones to really believe in me and see me as a real artist, as to commission me to work for you. I'll never forget this!

# posted by Alejandra @ 10:16 PM