The Department of Painting + Printmaking presents a visiting artist lecture by
Francheska Alcántara (MFA ’19)
Monday, February 17th at 12 PM
VCU Oliver Hall – Physical Sciences Wing, room 1024
1001 W. Main St., Richmond, VA 23220
Francheska Alcántara is a queer Afro-Caribbean artist based in The Bronx, NY and raised by a village of people in community. Their work plays at the intersection of gesture, ritual, and myth within the Black diasporic imagination. Francheska reworks, repurposes, and transforms artifacts such as brown paper bags, Hispano cuaba soap, dominoes, and organic residues through sewing, folding, cutting, burning, and layering.
Alcántara holds an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2019) and has been a resident artist at LMCC’s Workspace (2024), Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2020-2023), MASS MoCA (2023), and Recess’ Session (2022). Francheska is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Richmond.
