Maria Alfaro is a Mexican-American printmaker, painter, and muralist born in Acuámbaro, Michoacán. After moving to Milwaukee in 2016, she earned her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2020. Since 2018, she has devoted herself intensively to woodbloc k printing, exploring cultural identity, diaspora, and the concept of “home” through personal narratives and childhood memories.
Her prints evoke the beauty of the rural landscape as a meditative refuge, recreating dreamlike and symbolic atmospheres through automatic writing. Through works such as Vaya con Dios, Lucidity, and Homesickness, she transports the viewer into alternative realities rooted in intimate memory. Active also in muralism and painting, her practice seeks to reawaken the emotional dimension of everyday life.
