Name: STUDIO WORKSHOP: REIMAGINING PAPEL PICADO WITH CRISTINA GONZÁLEZ
Start: 2024-07-12T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-07-12T12:00:00-06:00
Location: New Mexico Museum of Art, Vladem Contemporary

$STUDIO WORKSHOP: REIMAGINING PAPEL PICADO WITH CRISTINA GONZ\u00c1LEZ$

In this 2-day workshop (July 12 & 19), participants will learn about historical and contemporary cut paper craft, and enjoy a hands-on workshop learning the fundamentals of creating a modern version of papel picado, the traditional Mexican craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper.
This workshop is limited to 15 people; $35 per person. To secure your spot, follow the link above!
Cristina González is a multidisciplinary artist whose studio practice explores personal, cultural, and ancestral memory and story. Her source material and visual references are informed by Chicana mestizaje and the places that she has called home stretching from San Antonio, Texas to California’s Sacramento Valley; from Mexico City to northern New Mexico. She is also known as a dynamic and dedicated teacher who cultivates partnerships for public art and art education and believes deeply in the arts as an essential path to transforming the educational landscape of northern New Mexico. González earned her B.A. in Art from Yale and her M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Among the artist grants she has received are fellowships from Skowhegan, Yale, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, and the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts. She co-designed “Warrior’s Repose,” a public memorial commissioned for the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque that is the first, permanent, Vietnam War memorial dedicated to Chicanos in the United States.