by Carlos Gacharná | Aug 26, 2020 | Workshops
Summer 2020. What a time, what a place. The only reason to be outdoors in the height of a pandemic was to fight against a broken correctional and policing system that’s cost too many lives to date. The street protests in Long Beach got extinguished quickly once the...
by Carlos Gacharná | Feb 21, 2020 | Workshops
In the winter of 2019-2020, I ran two classrooms at Camp Joseph Paige, a youth prison camp in the mountains east of LA. I also taught workshops at a Community Day School in Compton. We were severely limited in the kinds of materials we were allowed to use. I’ve taught...
by Carlos Gacharná | Oct 25, 2019 | Workshops
As a community-based artist, working with kids inspires my art practice, and my art practice generates content that I can then share with the kids. For example, in the fall of 2019 I just so happened to make a 13ftx20ft mural featuring a repeating pattern of 5 layer...
by Carlos Gacharná | Mar 25, 2018 | Workshops
Team Bubbler Forever! Even though it was just four months after I’d left them to move to Long Beach, the wonderful folks at Madison Public Library invited me to join them as part of their presentation at the National Library Association’s annual conference in...
by Carlos Gacharná | Apr 27, 2017 | Workshops
‘Air It Out’ was the culminating exhibition at the end of my final semester as the lead workshop facilitator for Madison Public Library’s Making Justice program. We explored screen printing, the Japanese string garden of Kokedama, and acrylic pour-painting (to name a...
