Andrea Jiminez Carrasquillo

Andrea Alejandra Jiménez Carrasquillo is a sculptress born on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. She graduated from the sculpture program of the Central HighSchool of Visual Arts in the capitol city of San Juan. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociocultural Anthropology with a minor in Medical Humanities & Fine Arts from the University of Puerto Rico. Through the upcoming years, she became an active participant of the island’s afro-caribbean genre, Puerto Rican Bomba, where storytelling is told through nonverbal communication through postures, gestures and history as told by the people through dance and performance. Andrea, began to combine this with the therapeutic aspects of visual arts by conducting workshops in community shelters for domestic violence survivors. In 2021, after loosing her father to covid19, she decided to submerge herself in her passion for classical art of the renaissance thus becoming the first Puerto Rican to be accepted in the advanced sculpture program in the Florence Academy of Art, Italy, where she currently is working as a Graduate in Residence. Andrea is the assistant instructor of the Department of Anatomy with sculptor Maudie Brady during the academy’s summer workshops,
Her works have been exhibited between Venice, Italy, New York City & San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her creative medium is water-based clay whilst she prefers to combine mediums in her final versions to create a dialogue between organic material and forged mediums like bronze and wood, resin and plaster. Her main aspiration with her work is to bridge art and transgerenational healing through open air exhibitions.