Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez

Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez is a proud Latina, a citizen of the world, and most importantly a human being. 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 what it means to belong 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 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, and Twenty Summers at Hawthorne Barn, has interned at Indigo Arts Alliance and The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and was an apprentice for ten years at Kemp Pottery in Orleans, MA. She was part of the 2023 Technical Education program at Mudflat. 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 along the way.