Episode 100 - Raven Juarez

Summary: <p class="font_8">Born and based in Seattle, Raven Juarez is a contemporary native artist, teacher, and presenter.</p> <p class="font_8">Juarez attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY and spent a year abroad in Florence, Italy, to study painting, drawing, print-making as well as Italian art and film history. She graduated in 2013 with a BA in the liberal arts, with concentrations in Child Psychology/Development and Visual Arts. Raven’s work is characterized by intricate designs blending the abstract into symbolic meaning to tell her stories. Created in a process Raven describes as “conversations with herself”, her pieces offer a glimpse into her subconscious and conscious wantings, wonderings, memories, and dreams. </p> <p class="font_8">In 2015, her first solo exhibition, Don't Touch, was in Brooklyn, NY, at The One Well in Greenpoint.</p> <p class="font_8">Since returning to the Pacific North West, Juarez's recent work has been shown in Tacoma and Seattle.</p>