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My name is Berenice Badillo and I am a community activist and Marriage and Family  Clinical Art therapist. I have created art for as long as I can remember. My art is geared at creating dialogue on social issues,encompases images of strong women and a attempts to capture a multitude of emotions. My work has a strong Latina influence but the paintings attempt to represent universal themes. I have worked in the community for over a decade providing inner city youth opportunities to express themselves through murals and artistic endeavors. Here you can get more information on who I am and my art work.

This site includes a small peek at my portfolio and some of the services that I offer.  As a freelance community artist I am always looking to be part of new and exciting projects. Let's collaborate!

I provide creative, reliable, and timely service with professionalism and care.  Please take a look around to see examples of my distinctive and unique style and let me know if you are interested in hiring me or purchasing my work.

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Berenice Badillo has dedicated her life in creating positive outlets to youth. She has worked with various local art groups that include Border Arts Workshop, REV arte and the Chicano Park Steering Committee. Berenice has had the privilege to participated in Insight 94 and Cuba bienalle in 2001.  She helped start "Elemental" a grass roots hip hop orginization  which gave youth a legal venue and outlet for graffiti and an opportunity to voice their talents and stories through deejaying, rapping, and painting graffiti murals with well known artists. She has run a non profit organization called "San Diego Streetscape" that gave at risk  youth  a positive outlet by creating community murals and theatre classes.

Biography

As a community fellow in 2000 for the Violence Prevention Initiative  by the California Wellness Foundation Berenice has been honored by various awards for her work in the community with at risk youth. Berenice has created various murals and participated in community projects in San Diego communities that include Chicano Park, San Ysidro, Pacific Beach, Carlsbad, North Park and Downtown. Berenice has also participated in community projects internationally such as Peru, Japan, Cuba and Mexico.She is currently a Marriage and Family Clinical Art therapist at a mental health clinic that serves homeless youth and their families in Banker's Hill. Art is a vehicle for change, it empowers, validates and can communicate that which has no words to express verbally.

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