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...
by Carlos Gacharná | Dec 8, 2016 | Workshops
Too Much SauceIt means the sauciness of the kidsThe creativity that the kids haveTheir artistic flow Too Much Sauce represents more than the Black vernacular vocabulary and surpasses notions of race, while simultaneously recognizing its consequences. This exhibition...
by Carlos Gacharná | Oct 1, 2012 | Workshops
RestART was the first community art program I ever worked for. I assisted founder Becky Redelings for a semester and then ran the program for another two seasons. She taught me the foundation of what it can look like to be an equal parts educator, artist and community...
