BMA TEACHER WORKSHOP
“I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil…The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world…the secret of my best work is that it is Mexican."— Diego Rivera
Saturday, December 2 8:30 a.m. to Noon Members: $20/Non-members: $25 The Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints Teacher Workshop celebrates the BMA’s first exhibition to highlight the Museum’s rarely shown collection of prints and drawings by renowned 20th-century Mexican artists. The workshop is recommended for Spanish Language, Social Studies, and Art Teachers.
Learn about Mexico’s Art Renaissance, which brought international attention to the political, social, and cultural changes that took place following the Mexican Revolution.
Enjoy a curatorial exploration of prints from the 1930s and 1940s by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Elizabeth Catlett.
Receive a bilingual (English and Spanish) teaching packet.
Create art in a print-making workshop.
