Veronica speaking at the unveiling of the mural “Not In Our Name” by renowned artist Juana Alicia in collaboration with San Francisco poet laureate Genny Lim, Clarion Alley, August 2025
Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is thrilled to announce Veronica Torres as CAMP’s newest Co-Director and Board member.
Veronica joined CAMP in 2023 as Communications Director for the project Manifest Differently. In June of this year, Veronica became CAMP Co-Director and a member of the Board of Directors, serving alongside Megan Wilson, and Board members, Wilson, Shaghayegh Cyrous, Katayoun Bahrami, Kyoko Sato, Ivy McClelland, Lian Ladia, and Chris Gazaleh.
Veronica Torres is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, and organizer whose work spans painting, photography, and mixed media. She began drawing at the age of five when her grandfather introduced her to various techniques for drawing faces. Today, 30 years later, her art integrates personal narrative, Mexican heritage, and Goth subculture into powerful visual storytelling. Her photography captures raw, everyday moments, turning them into visual poetry that reflects the complexities of life.
Veronica holds a B.A. in Communication with an emphasis in Strategic Communication and a Master’s from Cal State East Bay, where she focused on the sociopolitical dimensions of communication—skills that fuel her advocacy and public engagement. An active member of the Central Valley BIPOC Coalition, she is a committed advocate for farmworker rights, rooted in her family’s history in agricultural labor. Her work consistently resists imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy. Veronica’s activism also includes animal rights and arts education.
Since 2023, Veronica has led Colores del Futuro, an initiative offering art, music, and poetry to children of migrant farmworkers, and serves as an ambassador for the Modesto Artist Movement and board member of the Stanislaus Arts Council. Through her art, education, and organizing, Veronica amplifies social justice, mental health awareness, women’s rights, farmworker equity, and animal rights—using creative expression as a force for meaningful change.
WELCOME VERONICA!!!
About Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP)
The Mission of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically innovative public art, locally and globally as a grassroots artist-run organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. CAMP is a community, a public space, and an organizing force that uses public art (murals, street art, performance art, dance, poster projects, literary events) as a means for supporting social, economic, racial, and environmental justice messaging and storytelling. Over the past 30 years CAMP has produced over 900 murals and worked with many talented artists and community-based organizations and activists. In addition to its overall mural programming, CAMP’s projects/programming has included 1) the Redstone Labor Temple Project, highlighting San Francisco’s labor history (1997); 2) international exchange & residency projects with Yogykarata, Indonesia – Sama-Sama/Together (2003-2006) in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts and Bangkit/Arise (2018-present) in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum; 3) In Honor Of …, drawing attention to political prisoners in Iran in collaboration with Artists’ Television Access (2019); 4) Wall + Response, featuring 16 Bay Area poets responding to the social, political, and racial justice narratives of four mural projects on Clarion Alley (2020-22); and Manifest Differently, working with 38 artists & poets to interrogate the doctrine of ‘Manifest Destiny’(2023).
