ARLEENE CORREA VALENCIA
Me Quiero Ir Contigo / I Want To Go With You
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Arleene Correa Valencia is a Mexican-born embroidery and textile artist known for multiple solo and group exhibitions based on the emotional impacts of migrations through the perspective of family separation, identity, and visual representation on families migrating for a better life. Join Ah Haa in welcoming her with an artist talk.
ARLEENE CORREA VALENCIA (b. 1993, Michoacán, Mexico) is an inaugural recipient of the Bay Area Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts and received a regional Emmy award for her feature REPRESENT: Portraits of Napa Workers: Arleene Correa Valencia by KQED Arts. In 2023, Correa Valencia was named a Eureka Fellow by the Fleishhacker Foundation and a Finalist for the SECA Award through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In Fall 2023, Correa Valencia’s work was featured in a two-person booth presentation (alongside work by Stephanie Syjuco) for Focus at The Armory Show, curated by Candice Hopkins, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project.
“The 32-year-old painter traces her earliest creative spark to letters she wrote in her youth to her father — intimate messages that now serve as the inspiration for her work. The letters, rooted in love, laid the groundwork for an exploration of immigration and family, memory and survival — themes relevant to her community, she says, now more than ever, as U.S. immigration enforcement operations have led to recurring protests in Napa and across the country.”
Me Quiero Ir Contigo / I Want To Go With You
Named in honor of the founder of Ah Haa School for the Arts, The Daniel Tucker Gallery & Exhibitions Program strives to facilitate opportunities for people to discover, explore, and nurture their own creativity through exhibition, programmatic participation, and observation. To this end, all exhibitions and installations in the Daniel Tucker Gallery are curated in a manner that adheres to the following principles: