Rosa De Anda

Rosa De Anda, born in Mexico in 1955, arrived in the Bay Area in 1963. She is a painter, sculptor, poet, cultural events organizer, and writer. She believes art crosses all boundaries and is the most important documentation of our human experience. Rosa has worked in the Californian fields as a member of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union, community arts administrator, teacher, simultaneous interpreter, and licensed minister.

She considers the words tolerance, the other, minority, and people of color inappropriate and substandard in describing most of the world’s population with proven intellectual
talent, theological dominance, creative inventiveness in the arts and sciences, and athletic prowess. She is a linguistic architect who enjoys changing our language to foster sustainable human and environmental relationships.

In 1992, Rosa founded the Day of the Dead Festival of Altars in San Francisco as Executive Director; her mission is to create cultural events reflecting the diversity and strength of the multicultural richness in the Bay Area. She enjoys collaborating with artists and the challenge of her solo work.