Sarita Garcia is a Chicago based artist, educator, and cultural worker, born and raised in South Tejas. Garcia holds a Master of Art in Arts Education and a Bachelors in Fine Arts with a focus in Fiber and Materials studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Garcia currently works as an arts administrator at the Hyde Park Art Center within their School & Studio Programs and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago FMS Department. 

Garcia hold expansive experience within arts education, working alongside and in non-profits, cultural institutions, artist galleries and micro-organizations centered on youth based art programming such as the Hyde Park Art Center, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art, CAPE, SAIC, Marwen and Yollocalli Arts Reach. Alongside working within specific art education programming, Garcia is a fiber artist and printmaker, informed by architectural spaces of her vernacular culture using an image archive of markets to talk about consumerism, identity and cultural hubs. These "Fantasyscapes" showcase a vocabulary of iconography as a means to empower and remix the reality of these spaces. Garcia has exhibited work in Chicago such as the National Museum of Mexican Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Art Department, Chicago Cultural Center, Roots & Culture, Heaven Gallery, ACRE, Mana Contemporary, SITE Galleries and Sullivan Galleries. Nationally, Garcia has shown in Laband Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA, City Gallery San Diego, CA, and Blue Star Contemporary San Antonio, Texas. Garcia has been featured on the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic and Southside Weekly.

Contact

sgarci2@artic.edu 

@saritadanielle

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