Angela Guerra Walley is a multidisciplinary artist and writer known for her advocacy of the contemporary visual and performing arts through her documentary filmmaking with Walley Films and as the frontwoman of the indie pop band, Dreambored. A San Antonio native, she co-founded Walley Films, her independent video production studio, in 2010 with her husband and twenty-year collaborator, Mark Lee Walley. In 2018 she made her feature-length documentary directorial debut with Tía Chuck: A Portrait of Chuck Ramirez. In 2020 her band Dreambored released their debut album, Loved Ones. She currently works from her home studio in San Antonio, bringing together all her passions into a single multidisciplinary art practice as a unifying act of personal healing.

We Are Quilted Together
Artpace San Antonio, Main Space
Installation on view May 4th - September 3rd, 2023

Handmade quilts and clothing are manifestations of love. My mother and grandmother crafted these items for their families, so with my recent work I pay tribute to the lineage of women makers I come from. Like my grandmother’s patchwork quilts, my series of “quilt dresses” are made from fabrics readily available to me - my worn dresses cut apart, reconfigured, and sewn back together. They may visually take the form of dresses, but they are unwearable, fixed when quilted. Materially, the completed quilts are saturated with personal memories I have from once wearing the three to six different dresses they’re each made from and are a way of seeing my various selves together at once. As a woman with an incredible capacity for love and affection who has chosen not to have children, I often wonder, “Where does all that love go?”. My work attempts to answer that question, satisfy that need, and create work representing my desire to express my overwhelming maternal love as a childless woman.

Last Chance for a Sun: A Poetry Collection
Angela Guerra Walley’s debut poetry collection, Last Chance for a Sun, includes nearly seventy original poems celebrating the many aspects of love, from the affectionate to the erotic. A candid, sexy, and deeply personal series of poems, this collection bridges a gap between Walley’s therapeutic personal journaling and her band Dreambored’s cathartic song lyrics.