May. 30 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- When: Thursday, May 30th
- Where: Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave, Austin, Texas, 78705
- Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- Admission: $25 General, $20 Members (Use Membership Code)
- Parking: Frost Bank Tower – $10 parking for visitors after 5PM (4th and Brazos St.)
- All ages welcome
About
Join us for an Artist workshop/Encuentro with Changarrito Artist Gil Rocha! Guests can enjoy drinks, small bites, and a gallery tour with the artist while creating Found Object Sculptures! Rocha’s art work expands across painting, collage, sculpture, installation, and writing. Focusing on issues about the U.S./Mexico border and taking a survivalist approach known as “Rasquache,” this workshop will discuss Rasquache aesthetics and guide participants through creating sculptures made of found objects.
The workshop will be followed by an artist tour of his piece “Ya Mero”, an artwork based on an imaginary “Changarrito” hidden along the Mexican border of the US/Mexico border. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or a complete beginner, we invite you to join us in this Encuentro and participate.
About the Artist
Gil Rocha was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. He earned a BFA from the University of Texas in San Antonio (1999) and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006). His work was part of two major Texas exhibitions: the Texas Biennial (2017) in Austin, TX and the Trans-Border Biennial (2018) held at the El Paso Museum of Art and El Museo de Arte en Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He also guest-curated Mexic-Arte Museum’s “Young Latino Artists 23” exhibition in Austin, TX in 2018. He is the painting and drawing instructor at The Vidal M. Treviño School of Communication and Fine Arts, a Board Member of the Laredo Center for the Arts, and a committee member of the Laredo Culture District Project. Currently, he is curating an exhibition to coincide with “The Other Border Wall Project” at the 937 Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and preparing for his solo exhibition at the Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, TX.