Evelyn Serrano

Evelyn Serrano is a Cuban multimedia artist, educator, arts administrator, independent curator and mother. Serrano obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, School of Art, in Valencia, California.  Prior to that, she studied visual arts, design, art theory and history, epistemology, and literature in Havana, Montevideo and Miami. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Serrano is honored to have worked with many talented artists, choreographers, writers and performers in many exhibitions, projects and art events she has organized and curated throughout the United States as well as in Montevideo, Tel Aviv, Tijuana, and La Habana. Serrano is visiting faculty at the School of Art and the School of Theater at CalArts, and has also lectured and led workshops at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the New World School of the Arts in Miami, the CEART in Mexicali, the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock, and the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial in La Habana. She is the Assistant Director of Programs at the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP). Her work as artist, educator and arts administrator focuses on context-specific practices that advance the impact of the arts as a tool for social change.