PLANT TREES SAN BERNARDINO
April 9, 10am-1pm
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Thanks to Inland Empire Resource Conservation District & California Climate Action Corps, over a hundred trees will be planted in the city.
Volunteers are needed to help get the trees in the ground at The Garcia Center for the Arts. We would greatly appreciate your presence.
Trees will also be available to take. There will be both fruit trees and shade trees available to take home with you.
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SPRING AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
Mon-Thurs, 3-7pm
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The Young SAMOA has been hosting after school programs for the youth on Monday-Thursday, from 3PM-7PM. |
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KALAPU O SINIA O TOGALA'AU
SENIOR GARDEN CLUB MEETING
Wednesdays, 10am
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As well as Senior Garden Club Meetings every Wednesday at 10AM at The Garcia Center Community Garden. |
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The Young SAMOA is a community-based group in San Bernardino working to serve at-risk & disadvantaged Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander youth & families living in the Inland Empire. |
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April's printmaking workshop, below, is full. Please stay tuned for news on upcoming workshops. Events requiring registration are posted to our Eventbrite page.
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LINOCUT PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP
PRINT'S NOT DEAD
April 15, 4-7pm
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The Basics With Instructor Sarah Vazquez
In this introduction workshop to printmaking participants will learn the process of linocut printing. Lino cutting is a reductive technique where you carve an image into a block of linoleum. After you apply ink to your carving, or relief surface, you can then transfer the image onto paper. Great way to reproduce artworks fast and efficiently.
This workshop is open to young adolescents and adults ages 15 and over. All levels are welcomed. Participants will bring an image no bigger than 8x6 inches. All Materials will be provided. Wear your studio clothes/clothing you don't mind getting ink on. Participants will have the opportunity to create up to four (4) finished prints.
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WHEEL-THROWING
GUIDE TO VESSELS
April 23, 1-4pm
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Have experience with wheel-thrown ceramics? Having trouble throwing certain shapes like bottle neck vases, low bowls, or wider vessels? Just can't get that cup or mug as thin and tall as you’d like? We have a workshop for you! |
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In “Wheel-Throwing: Guide to Vessels” participants will receive guided instruction for creating up to three (3) different vessel forms. So we encourage participants to have an idea, sketch, or goal in mind for the workshop. Afterwards, participants will be able to choose one (1) vessel to glaze and fire free of charge; with a choice of firing more objects for an additional small fee. |
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For ages 18+ and up. This workshop is geared towards intermediate and advanced levels, so prior wheel-throwing experience is required.
- All materials will be provided.
- Please wear comfortable clothing, and close toed shoes
- College students are eligible for a discounted ticket price, with student ID.
- Limited Seats Available!
- Please email [email protected] with any questions.
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AJ ( Instagram: @ceramics_by_aj) is a ceramicist from Riverside, Ca. He has been working with clay for 6 years. Cal State San Bernardino is where AJ spent a lot of time wheel-throwing and growing as an artist. During his time there he worked with different clay bodies, and found a love for working with porcelain. AJ enjoys throwing bottle and vase forms because of its clean aesthetic and simplicity. AJ hopes to inspire others and help them grow comfortable throwing various shapes and vessels. |
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ALEXA VASQUEZ
"CISNE" OPENING NIGHT
April 23, 4-9pm
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About me:
Alexa Vasquez is a Pisces, a writer and artist. Her visual artworks are inspired by her birthplace, Oaxaca. Her writings are memories of growing up in an immigrant household, leaving home, transitioning and exploring trans womanhood. Alexa, a Voices of Our National Arts alumni, has been published as part of CultureStrike’s Home in Time of Displacement (2014) and Pariahs: Writing Outside the Margins (2016). She is currently one of 41 contributors in Harper Collins’ (2022), Some Where We Are Human, edited by Sonia Guiñansaca and Reyna Grande. Her visual piece, Cisnes En La Montaña, was part of TransLash’s Zine: Migration Stories. Alexa Vasquez graduated from Santa Ana Community College in 2020 with a degree in Fashion Design.
Alexa lives in Corona, California with her husband, Ismael and their four cats: Max, Mushu, Sully and Melon. She is currently writing, exploring, learning and preparing for her life as an artist in the midst of a pandemic.
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About the show:
Thousands of children cross the United States border every year, many of them unaccompanied and under the age of 12. We are seeing these numbers increase due to climate change, famine, war, systemic violence, crime and oppression. All problems created by men. Upon arriving in the United States migrant children become part of greater systems of exploitation; systems of profit, detention and incarceration.
A cage is a cage, is a cage. Children are not profit, or numbers. We carry stories. We carry momentos, trauma and joy.
Cisne is a visual celebration of my own story as a child migrant, a longing for relationships left behind and the memories I carried with me across the U.S. border. It is me reclaiming and reimagining a difficult queer childhood in the United States through mix media. It is through art that I want to present a show that is playful, joyful and still political.
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CERAMICS WORKSHOP
PINCH POT BERRY BOWLS
April 30, 10am-12pm
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* All tools, clay, & materials, will be provided for use during the workshop session. |
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This beginning hand building course will focus on the basic pinch pot method, we will cover basics of hand building, including scoring, slipping, and decoration techniques to personalize each piece. Each participant will have an opportunity to practice before creating their final piece with 2lbs of clay. This class includes the bisque and glaze firing. We will be using underglazes at the end of the session to add color. All pieces will be left at The Garcia Center to dry out before the bisque firing. The instructor will use clear glaze and contact participants via email or text when all pieces are ready for pick up. Projects are estimated to be ready to pick up at the Garcia Center for the Arts in 3-4 weeks. |
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Lucy has been teaching at The Garcia Center for the Arts since April 2019, and is a graduate of CSU San Bernardino. She has been a community educator for the past 10+ years.
Please Note:
- The Price is for either 1 adult for $25, or 1 adult + 1 youth (ages 5-18) for $45.
- This 2 hour workshop will be held in Person at The Garcia Center for the Arts Ceramic Studio.
- Please wear comfortable clothing, and close toed shoes.
- Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.
- If you are unable to attend please contact [email protected], if you need a refund 72 hours before the event.
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To Sponsor, Promote and Sustain the Arts
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