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The Rubin Center and art education students got inspired by artworks displayed in Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue exhibition. Visitors of all ages were invited to participate in a variety of playful, student-led art activities exploring materials featured in the exhibition—including corn, corn husks, and clay. In close collaboration with the Rubin Center, these engaging projects were developed by 21 aspiring art teachers as their primary project for the Fall 2024 Foundations of Art Education course.
Here are some of the activities they did:
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The Rubin Center and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino organized a fun-filled weekend of activities for families and visitors of all ages called Descubra!. This special celebration featured exhibitions Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective, La Frontera, and Proving the Hypothesis of Celestial Flirtation by local artist Christin Apodaca. The day included art demonstrations, fun activities, music, and featured activities from Descubra! national collaborator, the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Families participated in hands-on activities that included making lenticulars, scavenger art hunts, collage, and printmaking, and more. Families view artist Christin Apodaca as she painted a community art wall reflecting on Latinidad and the borderlands.
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Children and their families learned about photography and pop-art movement while visiting the exhibition “Instant Exposure: A Habit of Documenting”. They got the opportunity to see some of the work by iconic American artist Andy Warhol and view the work of local artists, Beatrice Macias and Julio Barrera, who like Warhol have been documenting and capturing images through photography.
For more information and registration please contact: Claudia Ley, Curator of Education and Outreach, cley2@utep.edu
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The Rubin Center for Fine Arts Family Day inspired by nature and the Rio Bosque. Took part in eco-friendly art-making activities while exploring the exhibition Here, and the Wind. The exhibition documents the process of community engagement in the creation of the performance, considering the intersections between land, movement, research, and conservation.
Free and open to the public.
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Esmeralda Grijalva |
Erica Martinez |
Donavella Wallace |
Janeth Medrano
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Join us for Signs of Life Community Family Workshop inspired by Both Sides of the Border: Endangered Species in the Borderland. In this workshop, families can create contemporary road signs focusing on endangered species in our region. Participants will create their works using the stencils, materials and medias used by the artists. There will also be exciting activities in the galleries throughout the day created to learn more about the exhibitions on display.
This event is open to learners of all ages but is geared towards 4-12.
It is free and open to the public, and no registration is necessary.
Don’t miss this event!
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Keep cool at the Rubin Center with dynamic programming for our friends of all ages! All of our programming is inspired by our current exhibitions on display, including the 2019 Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition and Not-So-Lone-Star: A Gathering of Texas Makers that are open through August 9, 2019.
All of our programs are free and open to the public.
However, space is limited, so you must register to attend at 915.747.6151
Keeping Secrets Family Workshop
Inspired by Jessica Rodriguez’s Compartmental Conversations
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 | 10 am - 12 pm
Tracing Your Story Family Workshop
Inspired by Iriana Soto’s La Vie D’une Dame
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 | 10 am - 12 pm
We had a great time with friends reflecting on our journeys and the things we carry along the way. UTEP Professors Vincent Burke and Jessica Tolbert, along with their art students led free community workshops on 'traveling shoes' and creating 'luggage tags' on copper plates. We also hosted a story time about migration + immigration + separation and had a conversation about our young friends who aren't as lucky.
‘Investigating the Natural World' STEAM Family Day took place Saturday, November 11, 2017. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) focused arts and crafts projects inspired by exhibition, Suzi Davidoff: Simplified World. The activities focused on endangered species, mapping climate change and the human footprint in the natural world. We had investigative ‘looking' tour of the exhibition and story time with artist, Suzi Davidoff.
This event was geared for ages 4-12, and their families. All Rubin Center Family Days are free and open to the public.
In collaboration with UTEP Art Professor Terri Bauer's Advanced Drawing Class
Saturday, September 12, 2015
10am - 1pm
Saturday, June 13, 2015
10 am – 1 pm
Come escape into summer at the Rubin Center with contemporary arts and crafts projects for the whole family. We will have Bubblescapes, which includes painting with bubbles and making glue bubbles; Wallscapes, a 3-D mural making workshop that will include learning about geometric shapes, printmaking and collage; and take a rest with our Videoscapes, an area for children of all ages to watch short animation films. We will have gallery tours and activities to focus on our 2015 Annual UTEP Student Art Exhibition. Hope to see you there!
A special thank you to Valenzuela Law Firm for sponsoring all our Spring Family Days!
Saturday, May 23, 2015
10 am – 1 pm
‘Inspire! Studio Art Lab Family Day'. We hosted a variety of mixed media arts and crafts inspired by the student artwork in the 2015 Juried Annual UTEP Student Art Exhibition . We had UTEP Art Students leading various art workshops and gallery activities. Some of the students were: Jason Lucero, Staphany Garnica, Sandra Herrera, Phillip John Romero and Cristina Vega-Rojas. We also had scavenger hunts and gallery tours. The family day is FREE and open to the public.
A special thank you to Valenzuela Law Firm for sponsoring all our Spring Family Days!
Saturday, March 21, 2015
10 am – 12 pm
All Rubin Center programming is free and open to the public.
The Rubin Center hosted a Hip Hop! Creative Writing and Performance Workshops for kids of all ages:
Ages 4-11: Hip Hop! Dance
Kids had a 2-hour session on learning the skills of Hip Hop dance. During this performance, children learned about the development of Hip Hop, a youth culture developed in response to many problems affecting New York City in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Mikel Gregory from Jago Sazu-The Free Dance Company lead this workshop.
Ages 12-18: Hip Hop! ‘Using Your Words to Change the World’
Fabian ‘Farbeon’ Saucedo taught how through the exploration of Hip Hop history, poetry and music, you can use your words to advocate for change in your own community. Students wrote poems and learned how to develop a performance to share their work. They also learned about the power of their own voice through words and music! ‘Farbeon’ is the Director of The Hip Hop Re:Education Project, a community-based organization that develops Hip Hop educational and cultural programming in New York City, throughout the United States and abroad.
A special thank you to Valenzuela Law Firm for sponsoring all our Spring Family Days!
Saturday December 6, 2014
Inspired by holiday season traditions from throughout the world, this festive celebration had a contemporary twist on the traditional festivities through the creation of arts and crafts, storytelling and live music performances. Children learned about the meaning behind each holiday and discovered that it really is a small world after all. We celebrated Mexico’s posadas, made and played the Dreidel, learned songs from around the world and much more!
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