"Threshold" Drawing

Federico E. Correa is a painter who lives and paints in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Correa’s grandparents were from Zacatecas and Aguascalientes, Mexico. Born into a family of farm workers, Federico is the third of seven children. He grew up in Soledad, California, a farming community in the heart of the Salinas Valley.

After working in corporate public relations and as a technical writer in Silicon Valley, Correa pursued his passion, painting. Although as an artist he primarily works as a painter and has primarily focused on large format oil paintings on canvas, he also enjoys drawing with charcoal, pastels and painting with acrylic paint on paper. He also enjoys doing sculpture. In addition to his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Public Relations and in the Fine Arts, Correa holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Mount Royal Graduate School of Painting , Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore MD. A Ford Foundation Fellow, Correa was awarded the prestigious Walters Art Museum Fellowship from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.