Alebrijes with Tony Ortega

This class is specifically designed as a Day Camp that will take place over a weekend from 9am-3pm. Instruction time will be from 9-12 and then 1-3, with a lunch break from 12-1. Students are responsible for bringing their own lunch.

Workshop description

For this workshop students will assemble and paint an Animalitos/Alebrijes fantastic creatures. Student will use recycled materials such as plastic fruit containers, toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, etc.), tape, hot glue guns, and paint with gesso and acrylic paint. Students will follow in the Mexican folk art tradition of Alebrijes.

Animalitos/Alebrijes: 

These imaginative animals are called Alebrijes (ali-bre-haze). The first Alebrijes, where created by Pedro Linares of Oaxaca, Mexico. After dreaming about the creatures while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and papier-mâché

Learning Objectives:

·       To facilitate the development of student’s personal imagery

·       To practice painting and sculpting skills

·       To present the formal elements of painting in a way that is helpful and useful to young students

·       To provide the student with a vocabulary of painting and sculpting terms.

·       End up with a final product that has color, pattern and embellishment

·       To encourage experimentation with found objects/recycled materials.

·       Developing new ways of thinking, seeing, and creating.

Details:

Ages 8-15

October 19 & 20

9am – 3pm

General – $75

About Instructor:

Tony Ortega is a Denver-based visual artist, and educator. His work has been exhibited in over 30 solo shows and featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado Spring Fine Art Center, Harwood Museum, Taos NM, Redline Art Center, Denver and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM. Tony Ortega holds an MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Colorado Boulder and is currently a professor for Regis University. In 2018, he was the Regis College faculty lecture of the year. He was the recipient of the coveted Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (1999) and the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (1998). His work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, Blanton Art Museum, Austin, TX and the Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City. His work is represented by the William Havu Gallery, in Denver, CO. For more information on his artwork, please visit his website at: www.tonyortega.net