The Art Base, 8-29 December 2023. Supported by Aspen Sister Cities and Town of Basalt.
In collaboration with the Basalt High School Newcomer Program, the HOME/UN HOGAR exhibition features19 new students from El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Honduras.
The program provides students with a connection to their new community, and gives them an opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of home, past and present. Components of the program include artistic and bilingual instruction, written reflections, and a collaborative art project.
This year’s project considered the boundaries that these students have crossed and wish to cross to get closer to the life they want to achieve. We carry out artistic interventions on recovered doors using recycled materials. The obstacles they chose to represent with each door are: FEAR, DISTANCE, and LONELINESS.
We invite visitors to experience the passage through these doors as an optimistic and transformative act, inspired by the concept of liminality (a state of transition experienced in moments of change).
Leading these efforts this year are two teachers, Diana Vargas and Adriana Cabrera. Diana recently came to the USA to work as an ELD teacher at BSH. She also works as a professor for a Colombian University. Adriana is a permanent sub-ELD teacher and a student at Colorado Mountain College. Dr. Leticia Guzman Ingram was the behind-the-scenes coordinator for the project. She also works as an ELD/Sped teacher and was honored as the Colorado Department of Educationʼs ELD Teacher of the Year in 2016.
The Art classes were led by Valeria Fiala, visiting artist, educator, and curator from Bariloche, Argentina. Her large- scale charcoal drawings and installations address nature and personal experience. Her works have been exhibited internationally.
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En colaboración con el Programa Newcomer de Basalt High School, presentamos a 19 estudiantes recién llegados de El Salvador, México Puerto Rico y Honduras.
El Programa se esfuerza por brindar a los estudiantes una conexión con su nueva comunidad y una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre el significado del HOGAR: en el pasado y en el presente.
Los componentes del programa incluyen instrucción artística y bilingüe, reflexiones escritas y un proyecto de arte colaborativo. Este año se trabajó sobre los límites que estos jóvenes han cruzado y desean cruzar para acercarse a la vida que desean conquistar. Realizamos intervenciones artísticas sobre puertas recuperadas usando materiales reciclados. Los obstáculos que eligieron representar en cada puerta fueron: MIEDO, DISTANCIA y SOLEDAD.
Invitamos a los visitantes a vivir el traspaso de estas puertas instaladas en Art Base, como un acto optimista y transformador, inspirados en el concepto de liminalidad (estado de transición que se experimenta en momentos de cambio).
Liderando este proceso se encuentran las profesoras Diana Vargas y Adriana Cabrera. La Dra. Leticia Guzman Ingram estuvo detras de escena como coordinadora del proyecto. Es maestra del Programa de Desarrollo del Idioma Inglés (English Language Development, ELD) en la Escuela Secundaria de Basalt y fue honrada como Maestra ELD del Año por el Departamento de Educación de Colorado en 2016.
Las clases de Arte estuvieron a cargo de Valeria Fiala, artista visitante, educadora y curadora de Bariloche, Argentina. Sus instalaciones y dibujos a gran escala realizados en carbonilla abordan la naturaleza y experiencias personales. Sus obras han sido expuestas internacionalmente.
Generously sponsored by: Skip Behrhorst + Donna Fisher
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