Juanita Lecaros Izquierdo (1920 – 1993) Chilean visual artist and poet.

She studied art at the University of Chile between 1949 and 1953, where she was a student of Gustavo Carrasco in drawing, Laureano Ladrón de Guevara in mural painting and Eduardo Martínez Bonati in engraving.

[5] While attending university, she was a member of the "Grupo de Estudiantes Plásticos".

Although Lecaros never traveled abroad, her works were exhibited in the United States, Brazil, and Italy.

[5] In parallel, she wrote poetry which she signed under the pseudonym J. M. Sorcale.