This Women’s History Month, celebrate the Women of Washington Heights with Andrea Arroyo as she takes you through the process of creating her exhibition “Faces and Facades”. ​​The project is a love letter to the uptown community and the women who hold it together. The paintings in the exhibition blend organic and non-organic forms, inspired by the women and architecture of Northern Manhattan. Creatives, visual artists, and feminists alike will be inspired by the passion Andrea brings to her work and community.

About Andrea Arroyo: 

“Andrea Arroyo is an award-winning artist who works in various media, including painting, site-specific installations, and public art. Ms Arroyo has presented sixty individual and over 200 group exhibitions, her work is collected internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Richmond Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, and the New York Public Library and many other institutions.She has received numerous recognitions, including The New York Women’s Foundation Award, two Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The United Nations Lurie Award, Artist Employment Creative Rebuild New York Fellowship, Global Citizen Award Artist, Clinton Global Initiative, San Antonio de los Baños International Biennial Award, Hispanic Federation/NoMAA/Google Art Award, and multiple grants from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Puffin Foundation, the Harlem Arts Alliance, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Additional honors include Heroes of the Pandemic, Official Artist of the Latin Grammy, Outstanding Woman of New York, Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts, and Outstanding Latina of the Year. Arroyo’s book ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity won the Gold Medal for Best Art Book at the International Latino Book Awards. Public art projects include permanent indoor and outdoor artwork for private, institutional, and corporate spaces, including the New York City Subway and two public schools.Her artwork has been published extensively, including on The New Yorker’s cover, The New York Times, The Nation, and Le Monde. It has also been the subject of over two hundred features in the international media.”