Latine Wellness Week: Painting session/workshop
Latine Wellness Week: Painting session/workshop
We invite all students and members of the UMD family to join us for a week of wellness at the Multipurpose Room in the Language House. Events include yoga and meditation, talks about mental health, creative writing workshops, painting classes, and a fiesta with karaoke.
Register here.
Day 2: Painting session/workshop facilitated by Angela Pico. Tuesday, April 9th. 5:30 - 7 pm. Materials will be provided.
Angela Pico is a second year PhD student at the Spanish department specializing in Latinx Literature in the US. Angela is also a trained visual artist who has marketed her artwork in the DMV area. She received her B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Pomona College. She has an M.F.A. in Spanish Creative Writing and an M.A. in French and Francophone World Studies from the University of Iowa. She loves multidisciplinary approaches that connect literature, cultural studies and visual arts.
Making place through art: rewriting pop symbols and memory
Homesickness is real, and finding community is hard. Explore what it means to make a place and make home through memories of your childhood and pop symbols. Create art pieces that embed your memories in your present space. As we work on a guided painting project, we will think about what certain pop images mean to you and how you can re-color these childhood symbols to occupy present space. How can the processes of art making and displaying images in our new environments help create a home?
As we paint, we will also be jamming to Juan Gabriel, Juan Luis Guerra, Celia Cruz, Juanes, Vicente Fernandez, Carlos Vives, Cumbias…and all those feel good jams from the tias! You’re welcome to contribute to the playlist too!
We invite all students and members of the UMD family to join us for a week of wellness at the Multipurpose Room in the Language House. Events include yoga and meditation, talks about mental health, creative writing workshops, painting classes, and a fiesta with karaoke.
Register here.
Day 2: Painting session/workshop facilitated by Angela Pico. Tuesday, April 9th. 5:30 - 7 pm. Materials will be provided.
Angela Pico is a second year PhD student at the Spanish department specializing in Latinx Literature in the US. Angela is also a trained visual artist who has marketed her artwork in the DMV area. She received her B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Pomona College. She has an M.F.A. in Spanish Creative Writing and an M.A. in French and Francophone World Studies from the University of Iowa. She loves multidisciplinary approaches that connect literature, cultural studies and visual arts.
Making place through art: rewriting pop symbols and memory
Homesickness is real, and finding community is hard. Explore what it means to make a place and make home through memories of your childhood and pop symbols. Create art pieces that embed your memories in your present space. As we work on a guided painting project, we will think about what certain pop images mean to you and how you can re-color these childhood symbols to occupy present space. How can the processes of art making and displaying images in our new environments help create a home?
As we paint, we will also be jamming to Juan Gabriel, Juan Luis Guerra, Celia Cruz, Juanes, Vicente Fernandez, Carlos Vives, Cumbias…and all those feel good jams from the tias! You’re welcome to contribute to the playlist too!