Alejo Salcedo
Alejo Salcedo is an artist from Washington D.C., exploring the intersection of food, art, and medicine. He is a printmaker, painter, tattooer, cook, muralist, potter, and cross-genre collaborator with interests including fermentation, gardening, foraging, cooking, meditation, and nutrition. In all these pursuits, he aims to live simply and locally.
Alejo believes the undertaking of life is a creative process with endless challenges and opportunities for expression. He claims art as a lifestyle, as well as the physical byproduct of a creative act. “Everything I do outside the art, eventually becomes the art.” When the emphasis is on process, as opposed to the outcome, technique and presence during creation become the meditation.
Alejo Salcedo / Asheville, NC
Alejo’s art pays homage to culture and traditions while simultaneously destroying, and transforming them. He uses his art to demystify process, stimulate conversation, and deconstruct our disembodied hollow culture.
“I am one of the voices of curiosity, playfulness, and unapologetic authenticity. Aesthetic distraction is not my goal. I see art as a slow yet great mover and changer of human behavior.”
Caravan Art Bazaar’s ART 4 AID program uses art for good by donating a percent of sales from artwork by participating artists to various grassroots mutual aid programs near and far.
To date, CAB has helped raise over $14,000 in funds for Hurricane Helene disaster relief in North Carolina, rainforest conservation in Peru and Sumatra, community land stewardship near Cherokee, affordable housing in Swannanoa NC, community art experiences in Asheville, cultural preservation in Vietnam, and more!
CAB’s ART4AID Program
