About The Artist

Arturo Villaseñor was born in Mexico City in 1965, graduated from the National Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelors Degree on Physics and Mathematics. He worked for several years in the restoration of historic buildings in Mexico City, including the Postal Palace, the Guarantees Building, the East Portico of the Palace of Fine Arts, The Postal Palace and the Monument to the Mother, among others. Thanks to these projects, he had the opportunity to work alongside experts in the field of restoration: restoration masters, painters and skilled craftsmen. In 2000 he moved to Oregon and started to work in Adult Education and Social Work. He worked in coordination with the Mexican Consulate to establish the first “Plaza Comunitaria” in Washington County, and also he was coordinator of the Access Technology Program in Centro Cultural for several years. In 2009 he joined to Adelante Mujeres— another renown non-profit organization in the Portland Metro area— and continued his work in Adult Education, Computer literacy, and business training for Latino entrepreneurs. In parallel with the formal work he always worked in his artistic facet as a poet, professional painter, graphic designer, sculptor, translator, writer, and photographer.