Rosa Zerrudo

Known for her socially engaged art projects, Rosa Zerrudo interweaves existing artistic traditions, rituals, and diverse processes through contextual exchange, cultural interventions, and participation to navigate ideas relating to trauma, healing, biodiversity, heritage preservation, and community. She is a socially-engaged multidisciplinary teaching artist with the heart of a cultural worker. Her background in AB Psychology and theater compliments her meaning-making and process-oriented art practice that she describes as soul work. Her Ph.D. research project investigates restorative curatorial practices engaging community healing arts in collaboration with incarcerated women in the Philippines.