RockArte

Awilda Maldonado was born in the Panama Canal Zone to Puerto Rican parents.  She spent her younger years in Massachusettes, and later moved to Barranquitas, Puerto Rico at the age of 8 years old.   Here, she acquired much of the ways of living in the country.  Later, she moved to the city of Rio Piedras where she grew up.  After graduating from the University of Puerto Rico, she worked as a teacher for 34 years. 

 

In the year 2000, she joined La Liga de Arte in San Juan, where she learned to discover her inner artistic self. She learned techniques from many professors at La Liga.  She  worked under the influence of many teachers in  painting and photography.

 

In 2005, she took her first workshop in ceramics with the well-known ceramist Luis Ivorra.   In 2014 she attended a workshop in North Carolina  with the  renown ceramists  Cristina Cordoba and Jason Burnette.  In recent years  she has taken various workshops with Cordova, her latest one in 2019.  Her favorite pieces are her characters.  Through them, she shares her inner thoughts.  She loves to combine ceramics with oxides, glazes and wire.

 

Awilda works out of her personal workshop in her home in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.