Biography
Current
Although Puerto Rican, she was born in Heidelberg, Germany. Her family moved to the Washington D.C. area when she was 3 years old. She completed her BFA in General Fine Arts (2010) and her Master of Arts in Teaching (2011) at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She collects objects, paints, sews, or uses photographs to build connections with community and themes of recurrence or repetition, and sometimes protection or comfort. She works for the Japan Exchange Teachers Program, and hopes to travel to many more places in her future as her hobbies include snowboarding, bicycling, exploring other countries and hosting foreigners and exchange students. She has visited Germany, Spain, Poland, The Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, and now lives in northern Japan. A life dream of hers is to visit every continent, including Antarctica.
Past
Arocho has participated in a few group exhibitions such as Blanket Statements at Load of Fun Galerie in 2008, which explored quilting within the community today and its historical context. The artwork shown at Blanket Statements, "Play With Me,” about childhood and the longing to play, was also in The Juried Undergraduate Art Education Exhibition, at MICA in 2008. As a senior in 2010, Arocho was involved in the course Quilting for Social Justice, where she helped layout and install the exhibition A Pathway to Awareness: Quilting for Social Justice in the Meyerhoff Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art. An enthusiastic volunteer Arocho spent much of her summer in 2010 at the 901 Art Community Center in Better Waverly, Baltimore, where she organized art projects with the neighborhood.
Although Puerto Rican, she was born in Heidelberg, Germany. Her family moved to the Washington D.C. area when she was 3 years old. She completed her BFA in General Fine Arts (2010) and her Master of Arts in Teaching (2011) at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She collects objects, paints, sews, or uses photographs to build connections with community and themes of recurrence or repetition, and sometimes protection or comfort. She works for the Japan Exchange Teachers Program, and hopes to travel to many more places in her future as her hobbies include snowboarding, bicycling, exploring other countries and hosting foreigners and exchange students. She has visited Germany, Spain, Poland, The Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, and now lives in northern Japan. A life dream of hers is to visit every continent, including Antarctica.
Past
Arocho has participated in a few group exhibitions such as Blanket Statements at Load of Fun Galerie in 2008, which explored quilting within the community today and its historical context. The artwork shown at Blanket Statements, "Play With Me,” about childhood and the longing to play, was also in The Juried Undergraduate Art Education Exhibition, at MICA in 2008. As a senior in 2010, Arocho was involved in the course Quilting for Social Justice, where she helped layout and install the exhibition A Pathway to Awareness: Quilting for Social Justice in the Meyerhoff Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art. An enthusiastic volunteer Arocho spent much of her summer in 2010 at the 901 Art Community Center in Better Waverly, Baltimore, where she organized art projects with the neighborhood.
