Alejandra Rubio

Alejandra Rubio is a printmaker, cultural curator, and community advocate from San Francisco. She is critical of societal norms and their impact on marginalized people and is fascinated by the power of radical imagination through the act of dreaming and creating art.

This has led her to pursue a career as an arts educator for the last two years working with children, youth, and adults. She was most recently awarded the YBCA Creative Corp Grant where she launched her own youth arts program, Creative Seeds of Activism. She mentored 10 local youth as they developed their own Art and Activism posters that were then displayed in Puerto Alegre, a local business. She has been a cultural bearer with Arte Unidos for the last 3 years sustaining the legacy of this project by collaborating with local businesses and providing solo shows to local marginalized artists.

She is the 2024-2025 R.A.I.C.E.S. Fellow at Galeria de la Raza, working on creating a body of work reflective of her experience having grown up in the Mission and Bayview regions.

“My family and I have lived in the Bayview since 2015 when we received public housing. My memories of growing up in the neighborhood are rooted at Heron’s Head park. My family and I moved in when the park had just opened and was still being paved out, we would ride our bikes from the house all the way to the end of the park and look out into the water.”