Carla Diaz Frances is an international sculptor, and owner of Magma Studio, a professional stone carving atelier located in the heart of San Antonio Texas. Before owning her business Carla spent 8 years in Anchorage, Alaska where she worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, UAA. She participated with the municipality of Anchorage to create Public Art for the VA Health System. She also did community work in the summer for the “Arts in the Parks” program. Earlier, she spent 4 years in Monterrey, Mexico where she participated in two FEMSA Contemporary Art biennales; being selected for both contests and being nationally awarded with an Honorary Mention. Ms. Diaz Frances also has a stone sculpture in the permanent collection of The Federico Silva Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Her two main areas of creative research include the urban dialogs between emotion and construction materials, and the study of fertile concepts in nature such as reproduction, conception, and origin.
Ms. Diaz Frances has worked with important and well-recognized sculptors such as Gaston Gonzalez Cesar, who has art work in China, Canada, New York and several monumental sculpture works throughout the Mexican territory.
Academically, She has earned a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio, UTSA; Also received a certification with The Seward Johnson Atelier, Technical Institute of Monumental Sculpture in Mercerville, NJ, and Studied abroad at Virginia Tech University. Additionally, Ms. Diaz Frances also studied at San Antonio College. Prior to the US, Carla studied at the National School of Fine Arts UNAM, Mexico City.
Recently, Carla was contracted to design and fabricate Public Art work for The University Health System at San Antonio in 2019. Presently, she makes custom stone carvings and designs for Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery and Prayer Gardens in Georgetown TX 2020, and teaches part-time at The Winston School of San Antonio, “Advocating for minds that learn differently”.
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