Education
2024 (Forthcoming) Penland School of Craft, Penland NC, Summer Session 3 When Sculpture Talks Back Workshop with Arthur Gonzalez
2023 Mudflat Pottery School, Somerville, MA, Technical Education Program
2020-2017 Maine College of Art. Portland, ME. Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Major in Sculpture with Public Engagement Minor
2016-2013 Cape Cod Community College. Barnstable, MA. Associates Degree in Fine Arts
Shows
2023 Fountain Street Gallery, Earthly Bound: Alejandra Cuadra and Ashley Page, Boston, MA
2022 Higgins Art Gallery, Longing for Belonging, Barnstable, MA
2021 Cape Cod Potters Exhibition titled TerraForm, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
LaunchPad at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Pasajes de Pertenecer, Boston, MA
Able Baker Contemporary, Undercurrents, Portland, ME
2020 Portland Public Library, One Day at a Time, Portland, ME
Engine, The Art of Protest, Biddeford, ME
MECA, Public Engagement Retrospective Exhibition: Not Mucking Around!, Portland, ME
2019 New System Exhibitions, Taking Our Sweet Time, Portland, ME
MECA, BFA Exhibition, Portland, ME
Mildred’s Lane, Grounded, Bench Lake, PA
MECA Merit Competition Exhibition Portland, ME.
Barnstable High School Gallery Alejandra Cuadra and Ashley Page Social Engage Art Exhibition Barnstable, MA
2018 MECA BFA Student Exhibition Portland, ME.
MECA Merit Competition Exhibition Portland, ME.
2017 Annual Day of the Dead Performing Arts Festival, Exhibition about Mourning Provincetown, MA.
2016 Higgins Art Gallery Selected Student Show Cape Cod Community College, MA
2015 Gallery Ehva Younger Than Amy Group Exhibit Provincetown, MA.
2012 Cape Cod Museum of Art Cape and Island School to Careers Partnership Exhibition Dennis, MA.
Residencies/Fellowships
2024 (Forthcoming) Eliot School’s Artist in Residence, Boston, MA
2023 20 Summers Residency, Provincetown, MA
2022 Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College Residency, Barnstable, MA
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Artists Residency, Rockland, ME.
2021 Open Studio Session II, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, ME
Monson Arts Residency, Monson, ME
2019 Yale Norfolk School of Art The Ethics of Color Residency Norfolk, CT
2019-2018 Warren Public Engagement Fellowship, Maine College of Art
Public Engaged Projects
2023 The Cordial Eye, Precious Worlds Workshop, Barnstable, MA
2022 Brewster Conservation Day, Endangered Species:Art and Environment Meet, Brester,Ma
2021 Lighthouse Charter Middle School, assistant Tombstones for Endangered Species, Harwich,MA
Congress Square Park, What Dwells Within our Beating Hearts?, Portland, ME
2020 MECA, Co-Coordinator, Resilience Week, Portland, ME
MECA, Co-Coordinator, Mend the Gap: A Community Blanket, Portland, ME
MECA, Co-Coordinator, Community and Belonging Meal 2020, Portland, ME 2019 Workshop/Visitor Artist at Barnstable High School about Social Engaged Art Cape Cod, MA.
Zand Head Gallery Art for Social Change Group Exhibition Portland, ME.
2018 MECA Lincoln Middle School Program Assistant Portland, ME
MECA, Conversation Quilt, Portland, ME
2017 Art Peace Makers MLK Art Making Party Wellfleet. MA
Curatorial Projects
2020 MECA, Co-Curator, Resilience of Diversity, Portland, ME
2019 The Abyssinian Meeting House Reflections of the Human Spirit Public Engagement Fellowship Conversations Project. Portland, ME.
Internships
2019 Indigo Arts Alliance Studio Intern Portland, ME
2011-2013 Center for the Arts at Castle Hill Ceramic Intern Truro, MA.
2011 Kemp Pottery Student Intern Orleans, MA.
Awards/ Grants
2023 MassCultral Council, Cultural Sector Recovery for Individuals, Boston, MA
NEFA, Learning Grant for Community Imagination for Spacial Justice, Boston, MA
2020 MECA, Eudolia Gross Service Award, Portland, ME
Maine Campus Compact PILLARS Student Award (Philanthropy, Innovation, Learning, Leadership, Action, Responsibility, and Service) ME
MECA Resilience Week Leadership Award, Portland, ME
MECA, Margaret Coleman Brown Endowed Memorial Scholarship, Portland, ME
2019 MECA BFA Merit Exhibition Jury Select-Concept and Narrative Portland, ME
2018 MECA BFA Exhibition Best Work by a Junior Portland, ME
MECA BFA Merit Exhibition Honorable Mention Portland, ME
2017 MECA Grant Portland, ME
MECA Dean’s Scholarship Portland, ME
2011 Nauset Regional High School Carol Potoff Ceramics Award Eastham, MA
Press and Publications
2023 Artscope Magazine,17th Anniversary Issue, “Freedom in Collaboration”
2022 Provincetown Independent, “Longing for a Place to Call Home”
2021 The Bay State Banner, “ Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez: Sculpting a sense of belonging Artist explores cross-cultural identity in‘Pasajes de Pertenecer’
Up Above Creative, “White Spaces" Short film by Michael Cestaro, Cape Cod, MA
2020 Maine College of Art, For You, The BFA Showcase Publication, Portland, ME
Amjambo Africa, “Resilience Week: Opening the Door to Inclusivity at MECA.”
Maine Public, “MECA Students Hold First 'Resilience Week' To Support Students Of Color In The Community.