F. John Sierra, one of the San Joaquin Valley’s leading artists and co-founder of Arte Américas, has died. He was 83.
Sierra died at his home on April 17, with family members at his side.
Born Felix John Sierra to a Mexican immigrant father and a U.S.-born mother, Sierra was one of nine children. The family moved several times over the years, from Kerman to Biola, a farming community north of Kerman, and then to Fresno in the mid-1950s…