Costa Rican artist Jeannina Blanco opened her first art studio in Newport Beach, California in 1998 after recovering from a craniotomy and having attended Scottsdale Artists School in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The artist is a member of the prestigious Salmagundi Club New York.

Her work has been published in The Artist's Blue Book, the LA Times and other newspapers and magazines. She defines herself as an artist who likes to share the gifts received, creating and participating in events on behalf of organizations that share her own believes as the protection of senior citizens, children, animals, the arts and the cultural values of places of faith and entire towns, such as the San Juan Capistrano Mission, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County in California, Hogar Magdala for the elderly in Escazú and Santiago Crespo in Alajuela, Costa Rica; the National Association of Animal Protection and the APAA. Escuela Verde of Uvita, Osa, and Playa Dominical in Costa Rica, for which she has donated her artwork and entire murals as well.

In the past nine years, Blanco has also shared their knowledge with art students of all levels and currently teaches at different art schools in Costa Rica.

Currently residing in her country of origin, is represented by galleries there and in the United States.

His large body of work consists of murals and hundreds of paintings, drawings and digital media, and a feature documentary about the history of the theater movement in Costa Rica that was declared of Cultural Interest by the former president Oscar Arias.

Jeannina Blanco’s artwork can be found in private collections in Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Holland, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Turkey and United States

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