Artist Initiative
ACHF Arts Access
Create art about Latin American legends inspired by oral tradition and research: culminating with an exhibition and distribution of reproductions. Solo exhibition with 8-12. The artist will develop new skills. Success determined by exhibition attendance, diversity of audience, successful distribution of reproductions, and mentor’s reviews of artistic quality. 2: The audience will be expanded by creating reproductions of the art and distributing to Immigration and Social Service offices in Latino community. There will be twenty-five reproduction posters with an image of art and text describing the legend. This will be five sets of five. The art reproductions will be gifted to Immigration and Social Service agencies so clients will see art.
Propelled my artistic career by producing numerous prints well received by the art community, scholars, art historians and Latinx community. The exhibition at Electric Machete Studios was important to the Latinx community as many commented that they identified with the culturally specific images and legends. The audience was extremely diverse including people of all ages, races, ethnicities, gender, etc. and I was able to successfully distribute actual prints (vs. reproductions) to non-profits and immigration law offices to make the work more accessible. 2: The exhibitions had large diverse audiences expanded to include urban and rural areas. Works distributed will reach new audiences. The audiences were expanded to include urban and rural Minnesota. Artwork was distributed to immigration law and non-profit agencies. The quality and value of an actual print is higher in comparison to a reproduction.