Rosa is a poet, fiction writer, visual artist, and event creator
She is currently available for hire
About Me
Rosa De Anda is a writer and visual artist. She is the founder and Director of the San Francisco Day of the Dead Festival of Altars. She created it in 1991 while acting as Education Director at the Mission Cultural Center. The Day of the Dead is a cultural community co-creation that fosters sustainable human and environmental relationships by honoring our Ancestors and the circle of life and death.
She strongly believes art crosses all boundaries and is the most important documentation of our human experience. Rosa considers the words tolerance, minority, and people of color inappropriate and substandard to describe most of the world’s population with proven talent, intellectual brilliance, theological dominance, inventiveness in the arts, sciences, and athletic prowess.
She received her BFA from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Chicago Art Institute, an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts, and an MFA in poetry at the University of San Francisco, where she was also a distinguished Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellow.
My Background
Born in Tijuana, Mexico, she holds a third culture. She is not from the Jalisco Highlands, where her parents were born, and she is not Alta Californian, where she grew up. She belongs to the great migration culture. She is a code switcher, shapeshifter, inventor, and rebel. She is influenced by her farmworker, longshoreman, arts administrator, and scholar experience.