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Date

July 12, 2024

Name

Papel Picado-C.Gonzales

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Studio Workshop: Reimagining Papel Picado with Cristina Gonzales

July 12 and 19

10:00am-12:00pm

Vladem Classroom

This is a 2-day workshop (July 12 & 19) Participants will take a brief dive into historical and contemporary cut paper craft, followed by a hands-on workshop in which we learn the fundamentals of creating a modern version of papel picado, the traditional Mexican craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper. 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.

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