PEDAGOGIA


Through her art teachin, Lopez paves way for emergin young artist and erudites of tomorrow. Lopez strives to imbue life belongings learning habits and execituve functioning skill to inner city young folks. Theorist Paulo Freire wrote of the importance of decentering the role of an educator as the sole key holder of knowledge. His writing has influenced Lopez's teaching philosophy informed by her personal experiences as a Chicago Public School Alumni. In her art classroom, students engage with culturaly relevant content through visual critical thinking exercises studying the works of contemporary artist and responding to visual text in creative writing fromats. Young artist will be challanged to think criticaly and take creative risks to gain different perspectives, essesntial for growth. Lopez has held art teaching positions at Chicago non-profit's Marwen, Yollocali, Gardeneers and the National Museum of Mexican Art. In addition to shareing the gift of visual literacy, she spends her summers teaching skateboarding lessons to TGNC youth in the Little Village neighborhood.

Franklin Fine Arts Center

In this exploration of landscapes, kindergarteners at Franklin Fine Arts will construct various landscapes employing the technique of collage and color theory to distinguish complementary colors making their landscapes pop. At the end of this sequenced lessons, students demonstrated observable growth in their craftsmanship skills using art making tools: scissors, oil pastels and watercolors to create collages inspired by the desert landscape of the Sonoran/Sub-Saharan Desert and the urban landscapes of Chicago.

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Hancock College Prep High School

This two day lesson, young artist from Chicago's John Hancock College Prep excersised agency over their personal narratives an identities through still life drawing observation. Students were introduced to color theory, mark making patternmaking, elements of composition while exploring graphate as a medium. The class studied the works of contemporary artist working between themes of personal narr atives and illustration. Students developed still life illustrations selecting 2-3 personal objects that best represent their identity, these objects included but were not limited to keychains, glasses, plushies, sports hats, custom airpod case, lipgloss, religious/cultural objects.

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Homan Square Welding Workshops


Gardeneers


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Enlace Chicago


Marwen


National Museum of Mexican Art