Alejandra Cuadra

Alejandra Cuadra embraces clay, wood, video, steel, and objects of abundance to weave, braid, and knot together her history – what was, what is, and what is to come. Feeling neither from here nor there, she seeks to reconnect to her roots in Peru while threading together notions of identity, displacement, traditions, belonging, and a desire for freedom. Her current work reflects her quest for belonging within the body, soul, community, and the rooted valleys of the earth.

Cuadra lives and creates on unceded Massachusett and Pawtucket land. She holds a BFA in Sculpture with a Minor in Public Engagement from the Maine College of Art and Design. She has attended residencies at Yale Norfolk School of Art, Monson Arts, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Twenty Summers at Hawthorne Barn, and Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts. She apprenticed with Steve and Matthew Kemp for ten years at Kemp Pottery in Orleans, MA. 

Cuadra is a studio artist at Mudflat Studios and teaches at the Munroe Center for the Arts and Dandelion Montessori. As she continues to pave her artistic path, she seeks to live an inspired life filled with more questions than answers, constantly learning, relearning, and unlearning.

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