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Latinx Art Workshop: “How do you color freedom?"

Join Dominican American artist Scherezade Garcia for an art workshop titled “How do you color freedom? Cómo le pones color a la libertad?” Refreshments provided.

Thursday, April 18, 2019
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: 50th Anniversary Milestones, Arts, Lectures & Seminars, Workshops & Training

MINI-TALLERES @ LA CASA (A Spanish Workshop Series), in collaboration with Dartmouth 250, the Department of Art History and La Casa presents Scherezade García, a visual artist based in New York City. On Thursday, April 18, she will be giving a workshop:How Do You Color Freedom? ~ ¿Cómo le pones color a la libertad?

Join us at Rocky 003 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and come prepared to create/liberate!

All events are open to the public and will be conducted in Spanish and English. Refreshments will be provided.

Scherezade Garcia is an interdisciplinary visual artist born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and based in New York. In her work she addresses contemporary allegories of history and processes of colonization and politics, which frequently evoke memories of faraway home and the hopes and dreams that accompany planting roots in a new land. By engaging collective and ancestral memory in her public intervention and studio-based practice, she examines quasi-mythical portraits of migration and cultural colonization. Garcia holds an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons-The New School and an MFA from the City College of New York. She is the recipient of a 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. She is a co-founder of the Dominican York ProyectoGráfica and sits on the Advisory Board of No Longer Empty. She has participated in the S-Files Biennial, the IV Caribbean Biennial, the Havana Biennial and other international venues. Garcia has exhibited widely with projects such as Super Tropics, Paradise Redefined, Theories of Freedom, This Side of Paradise-No Longer Empty, Souvenir, Stories of Fallen Angels, Tales of Freedom and others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, The Hood Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo and private collections. Her personal papers are in the collection of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. She is a faculty member of the Parsons School of Design in New York.

For more information, contact:
Samantha Potter

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.