Open Studio: King Artist Residency

The 2024 King Artist Residency Open Studio with Artist Alma Landeta

Meet the 2024 King-Artist-in-Residence Alma Landeta in their studio E6 at the Cubberley Community Center on Thursday, June 20, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Alma Landeta (they/them) was approved by the Public Art Commission as the 2024 King Artist-in-Residence. Alma Landeta is a trans and mixed-race visual artist and educator who centers queer joy as liberation through drawings, paintings, site-specific installations, and public programming. Their work reflects their lived experiences while celebrating the communities that have held space for them to live authentically. Landeta's background as an educator has taught them how to incorporate culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate frameworks for facilitating social practice art—whether that’s through a collaborative framework for individual portraits, interactive installations, or community workshops.

For their King Residency project Alma Landeta is focusing on the lived experiences of the LGBTQAI+ community members residing and/or working in Palo Alto with the goal of sparking conversations about inclusion, equity, a sense of belonging and bringing Palo Alto’s diverse communities together through better understanding and compassion.