Supposed to Be Painting

Angelina Salgado is a visual artist and has always been drawn to bright colors, which are a hallmark of her artwork and personal style. She creates colorful paintings in watercolor and gouache, featuring holographic and iridescent details, created with colorshif paint. The paints are handmade in small batches and contain cosmetic-grade, light-reflective, metallic, and glitter pigments, which makes the colors of the Aurora shift subtly when viewed from different angles. Angelina is the brand ambassador for three of those artisan paintmakers: @ColoringBrittany, @WatercolorCandies, & @wonderful_watercolors. Angelina Salgado is visual artist and art educator, based in NJ. The eldest daughter of Filipino immigrants, Angelina was born and raised in New York. She received her AAS in Fine Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology, pursued a double major in Art History and Studio Art at Hunter College, then earned her Master’s degree in Art and Museum Education from the City College of New York. She has taught in several art museums and cultural institutions across NYC, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She brought her eclectic experience in art and museum education to the elementary art classroom, first, at a charter school in Harlem, then two elementary public schools in Northern NJ. She continues to teach art, although no longer to small children. Angelina leads paint and puff classes with Garden State of Mind. She paints everyday and her artwork has been featured in gallery exhibitions in New York City and northern New Jersey.