Street Art Workshop in Fort Woth, TX
In early April 2022, I was invited by The Carter Museum to facilitate a wheat paste - street art installation with local Forth Worth youth. The event was in collaboration with Artes Del La Rosa Cultural Center for the Arts. This was my second trip back after my initial visit to set up my Justice For Our Lives installation for the second leg of ¡Printing the Revolution! exhibit.
Day one of this trip consisted of 15 minute presentations to rotating groups of high school students who came to visit the museum and experience the exhibit. When it comes to Justice For Our Lives in particular, students are my number one target audience so I am always glad to take the opportunity and pass this information to the younger generation, especially outside of the Bay Area.
Day two started at the museum again for a short interview for the Fort Worth Report covering a bit of my background and the workshop. After that we headed over to Artes De La Rosa for the workshop. Once our group of about 15 - 20 students arrived, we began the activity with an hour long presentation of my artist journey and my Justice For Our Lives project. We then led into a demonstration by the Carter Museum staff on the process of foam board printing. The prints that the students created where scanned and digitally printed on colored paper to create our outdoor installation down the street at Casa Azul Coffee.
We walked over to the location where we came across a partially boarded up gate that would be the wall surface for the installation. Once the printouts arrived I did a quick demonstration for the group on how to apply wheat paste and adhere paper onto the surface. The students took over and remained engaged all the way through. I knew we where going to encounter registration issues so I made my best attempt to direct the placement of each page as the process went along at a fast pace. The students definitely understood the assignment because we finished that install in a little over an hour. I have to say that to date this has been the most fun I have had facilitating a workshop with youth. Everything was on point. I could not of asked for a better turnout. I am very grateful to have been able to work with the Fort Worth community. I really hope at some point in the future I can return and work on another project. Shout out to Adam Werner, Amon Carter Museum, Artes De La Rosa and Casa Azul Coffee and everyone else involved for making this happen.
