Anita Valencia


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Anita Valencia (born 1932) is a visual and mixed media artist known for her work with recycled materials.

Biography

Anita Valencia was born in 1932 in San Antonio, Texas. She was a student at the San Antonio Art Institute. She also received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1984.[1] While at these schools, she specialized in printmaking and started making lithographs.[2] Anita was even one of 250 students to be selected to go to Japan to study paper making.[1] She has since begun creating public art, sculptures, and other mixed media art pieces.[3]

Selected Works

  • Butterflies is a bench that Anita did in 2013. It is located in San Antonio, Texas. Using various recycled materials, she created a bench with many different butterflies scattered around it.[4]
  • Remembering Memi is a mixed media piece featuring CDs, coffee filters, and acrylics. Created in 2018, it honors her late mother, Ana Maria Peimbert. It was featured in an exhibition called “A Voice from the Art of the Sacred Texas Springs.”[5]
  • Sun She Rise Sun She Set and You Ain't Seen Texas Yet is an installation piece that uses recycled cans, caps, and wire hangers to create a scene of aluminum can butterflies, wire hanger tumbleweeds, and bottle cap cacti. This piece was on display at the Southwest school of Art.[6]
  • Butterfly Waystation is an installation piece featuring many recycled aluminum cans molded to be in the shape of butterflies. It is a three-dimensional piece in that the butterflies hang above and on the wall. This piece was featured at Plaza de Armas in San Antonio in an exhibit called “Compositions in Space: Architectural Interventions.”[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Almeida, Arturo Infante (2015). Veinticinco: 25 Original Print Editions by Latino & Latina Artists Printed at the University of Texas at San Antonio (PDF). University of Texas at San Antonio. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-9831130-9-6. OCLC 967518195.
  2. ^ "Anita Valencia (American, b.1933)". McNay Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  3. ^ Romo, Ricardo (18 February 2018). "Confluence of Culture: the art of the Henry B. Convention Center". La Prensa. ProQuest 2011213024.
  4. ^ "Butterflies". San Antonio River Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  5. ^ "Meet the Artists". Headwaters at Incarnate Word. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  6. ^ Spring 2013 class catalog. San Antonio, Texas: Southwest School of Art. 2012.
  7. ^ "Local artists transform Plaza de Armas with 'Compositions in Space: Architectural Interventions'". La Prensa. 17 April 2016. ProQuest 1786237287.

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