Summer Teaching Artist Training is Complete!

Summer Teaching Artist training is complete! To prepare for the upcoming academic year, we have spent the last 2 weeks completing collaborative training workshops featuring artworxLA staff and guest speakers. Our 2016/17 cultural partners,The LA Public Library, LA Conservancy, Los Angeles TaskForce and the Skirball Cultural Center, each led training workshops to empower our Teaching Artists in their arts workshops curriculum development for the upcoming academic year.

We congratulate our teaching artists and look forward to the artwork that our students will be producing with their guidance.

artworxLA's 2016/17 Teaching Artists:
Gloria Alvarez, Sumiko Braun, Josh Carro, Irina Contreras, Rachel Curry, Kelman Duran, Veronique D’Entremont, Dino Dinco, Dorothy Randall Gray, Lluvia Higuera, Pola Lopez, Nijla Mumin, Amy Phillips, Felix Quintana, Lilia Ramirez, Maria Ramos, Zoe Rawson, Jose Sanchez, Roderick Smith, Cosmo Soltani, Marissa Sykes, Sayon Syprasoeth, Dewey Tafoya, Teresa Tolliver, Walter Vargas, Cynthia Velazquez, Gloria Westcott, and Peter Wu.

Brenzy, Workshop Coordinator

Brenzy is currently a Sociology major at Pasadena City College. At PCC, she served as a mentor through the Puente project, supporting mentees with writing, life skills, and transfer plan workshops. Brenzy also pioneered the Young Curators Program at Self-Help Graphics where she organized exhibitions and coordinated events that included live performance, vendors, and more. Simultaneously, she interned at the Skirball conducting curatorial research, interviewing artists, and doing outreach for their upcoming PST:LA/LA show on muralism. Brenzy then went on to Center Theatre Group where she has done work around community partnerships, recording donor and financial records, and managing auditions. Brenzy served as artworxLA’s Getty Muti-Cultural intern in the summer of 2017. After completing her internship programs, she has stayed involved with the organization, completing zine workshops and special activities with program participants. Brenzy joined artworxLA’s staff in the Fall of 2018.

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