Jorge Luis Somarriba

Jorge Luis Somarriba is a professional visual artist with a BA in Studio Art from American University in Washington, DC, and a 33-year, professional teaching career in Elementary, Middle, High school, and adult education. Mr. Somarriba is renown in the Washington, DC metropolitan area for his indoor and outdoor community mural paintings, earning him two prestigious awards from the DC Commission on The Arts and Humanities, Outstanding Emerging Artist in 1987, and Legacy in 2013. His multi-media experience in visual arts consists in graphic design, screen, relief, and lithography printmaking, painting, collage, ceramics, mosaic murals, construction boxes, hand-made books, glass fusing, paper, wood, and metal sculptures. During his permant residency in Santa Fe, NM, Jorge has delighted in his exploration of devotional art, traditional of New Mexico, through the creation of retablo paintings, and bulto wood carvings.