Teen Art Class (Ages 13–15): The Creative Vessel—A Conceptual Approach to Art

What can an artwork can carry within it? What would you would like to share through art? In this class, students will look at artworks and artists through the lens of vessels as a metaphor.

You’ll be encouraged to consider your role as vessel and your responsibility in solidarity, becoming an agent of change and an imaginative builder of the present and the future, creating mixed media artworks that reflect what you learn in this process. Taught by artist Fernando Isai Garcia.

This program will take place outdoors on LACMA’s campus. Supplies are included with tuition.

About the Instructor

Fernando Garcia (they/them/he) is an artist and art educator based in Los Angeles, ancestral and unceded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples and the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. Fernando is an immigrant to these lands from the Zapotec Community of the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca, Mexico. Fernando has been a student of photography for almost 20 years, and their work has since expanded to include performance, painting, and the written word. Amongst their most recent projects is Nosotrés Polaroids, environmental portraits of those in and around Fernando’s communities, always including two portraits, one for those in the photograph and one for the new community of photographs being created with this project.

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