Josefina Quezada
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Josefina Quezada (circa 1925 - May 2012)[1] was a Mexican-born Chicana muralist, photographer and supporter of the arts in Los Angeles. There are twelve murals in Los Angeles created by Quezada.
Quezada was born in Mexico City.[2] She grew up in the Mexicaltzingo neighborhood of Guadalajara.[3] In the 1940s, she studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[3] She first came to Los Angeles in 1971, when she was hired to restore David Alfaro Siqueiros' América Tropical mural.[4][5] She and Jaime Mejía opted to preserve the mural at the time.[6] Quezada worked with Shifra Goldman and Jesús Salvador Treviño to document the mural and the work done to preserve it.[2] Quezada spent around thirty years living in the United States.[3]
In 2005, Quezada was honored by the Jalisco Secretary of Culture for her decades of work as an artist.[7]
Quezada died in Mexico in 2012.[2]