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Designed for artists, this series of public programs offers tools and ideas for artists’ careers, creative work, and communities. Pairing conceptual and ethical questions with the practical and material concerns of an artist’s profession, Construyendo is funded by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. 

Cultural Arts Funding and Grant Writing Workshop

Saturday, May 6, 2023 | 11AM

at Rubin Center Galleries 3rd Floor

 

Rebecca Munoz

As part of its mission to drive El Paso’s cultural vitality, MCAD provides support annually to local artists, area non-profit arts organizations, and creative entrepreneurs through a competitive granting process.

 In this talk, MCAD Cultural Program Manager Rebecca Muñoz will discuss this year’s Cultural Arts funding opportunities for local artists, and strategies for grant-writing.

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Body, Water and Land: Embodied Practices and Environmental Stewardship

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

 

In this talk, Visiting Assistant Professor Sandra Paola López Ramírez delved into her interdisciplinary and community-based work sharing both in theory and practice how she uses movement improvisation as a catalyst to bring together her passions in dance, community building and environmental stewardship. As part of her presentation, she introduced the audience to the Rubin Center’s exhibition Here, And the Wind: An Exhibition About Process, which documents and explores the artistic and collaborative processes behind the multi-year project Experiencing the Bosque.

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Sandra Paola López Ramírez (EdM, MFA) is leading the Rubin Center’s emerging Community Engaged Practices in the Arts Program, collaborating with artists, campus and community partners to create opportunities for students to begin to develop meaningful practices that value both aesthetic and relational outcomes. She is an interdisciplinary dancemaker, cultural organizer, improviser, and mother. She was born and raised in the luscious Andes mountains and her relationship to the Andean landscape and her mixed heritage deeply influences her artistic work and activism. Her practice integrates her creative process and her community organizing efforts, creating works that activate public spaces and natural landscapes. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at 成人头条.