This is an educational and interactive Community ARTS Resource Exchange. Please feel free to download any information that may benefit a community arts program in your area. We would love your input... Introduction Mission and Goals Guiding Practices Events Peace Event Documents Links Click on images to see a larger version. Pages Created by: Paul Hillman 00359 hits since 10/24/2006		"Community Arts in Dialog and Action" Artists Marco A. Albarrán: I was born in the border city of San Luis R.C. Sonora, but I trace my cultural and spiritual roots to the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Michoacan. By the late 1930s, my family immigrated to the state of Sonora, but maintained a strong connection to the traditions of Guanajuato. By the time I was a teenager, my family and I crossed the border and settled in Yuma, Arizona. There, I was influenced by the cholo life, and life as a farm laborer. During my travels to the fields of Arizona and California, I met Cesar Chavez. By the early 1980s, I entered Arizona State University and was introduced to other Chicano leaders as well as knowledge about the Chicano Movement, which greatly influenced me on works of community development. I strongly believe in the promotion of diversity and community development. I believe in the implementation of arts and culture into community programs and projects. I also believe that all people can reach a sense of social and cultural balance through the arts. I really enjoy giving people positive messages, and educational experiences that create interaction and understanding. As an artist, my art reflect simple images, and ancient colors. As a child I was strongly influenced by traditional ways as I walked through the small calles "Guanajuato" in Mexico. There, the vivid colors, aromas and the diversity of every day life, prepared me for the life at "la frontera," the Mexican border, and gave me the energy for life on the other side of the border. My art reflects ancient indigenous beliefs and ways of life, and incorporates the power and expressions of spirituality. One major theme of my art is closely connected to the Dia de los Muertos, a tradition of many thousands of years in Mexico. My altar and ofrenda installations include found and natural materials prevalent in many of the Mexican traditional celebrations. As an artist, I strive for the opportunity to express my Mexican traditions and culture. Our web site at www.marcoalbarran.com or www.calaca.org "Hotel del Muerto", Mixed Media, structure, 48"H X 31"W X 5"D The Life of Gary Avey and the magazine NATIVE PEOPLES he edited and published are recognized in this exhibition. Gary was a native of Phoenix, born on June 5, 1940. His path in Phoenix was paved by his Grandma Rose Avey who received her MFA in Fayetteville, AR by way of Yellville (Shawnee Town), Arkansas. She was Arizona's first public school art teacher in Mesa. She also sponsored the cheerleading squad, the theatre club and the art club and was president of Arizona's first Artist's Guild while raising five children all as a single mother. As her grandson, Gary was imbued with both the love of art and community service. He earned his BS in Commercial Art and his MFA at ASU. Gary's dedication to the art world and community service began at the age of 14 when he took his first job as an occasional contributor to the Arizona Highways publication. He worked his way through ASU as a free-lance commercial artist when the University hired him to reorganize the yearbook system and its staff. His efforts created the top award-winning book for the next three years! Gary was then employed by Kreuger as their Phoenix correspondent for national sales and marketing of magazines and catalogs. Later, he was the print contact for Arizona Highways, and in 1979, he was asked to apply for the job of Editor-in-Chief. He brought back the original Carlson/Avey philosophy and the magazine experienced its all-time highest circulation of over 500,000 copies through its award-winning style. Gary's successes at Arizona Highways Magazine were recognized by the Heard Museum, who hired him in 1985 to pursue his idea of a magazine dedicated to the native peoples of this land. After operating the magazine for a year as an official Heard publication he arranged to purchase his baby and Native Peoples Magazine became an independent publication! Dedicated to the sensitive portrayal of the arts and life-ways of native peoples of the Americas, with a multi-cultural staff and Board of Directors, the magazine has over a dozen other museum affiliates throughout the country and Europe. His strong belief in the dignity of the individual Arizonan and the great value of Arizona's native cultures guided his life. Matt Krise and Chuck Banaszweski, Spraygraphics, t-Shirts. Matt Krise is an owner and lead designer for Spraygraphic Apparel. He has worked in the design industry for the past six years where he has received a degree in Industrial design from Arizona State University and has worked for a prominent Scottsdale design firm, for the past two years. He also is a Faculty Associate for Arizona State University's Architecture and Industrial design's undergraduate program. His activism revolves around developing products that are environmentally friendly and other related environmental issues including recycling, preservation, pollution, and safety. Chuck is a doctoral candidate at ASU specializing in Theater for Social Change and is also currently working with students at Genesis Academy through funding provided by the Cultural Arts Coalition. Spraygraphics, 4 t-shirts, screen printing on cotton. Anne Coe is a fourth generation Arizonan. She grew up on a ranch in the southern part of the state. Anne has traveled extensively and has had many varied and interesting occupations including but not limited to: bar tender in Germany, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, Flight attendant, trail guide, television producer, radio and television on air talent, and currently, Instructor of Art at Central Arizona College. She lives on the slopes of the Superstition Mountains in the high Sonoran Desert. Ms. Coe is widely known for her sometimes fanciful, sometimes disturbing interpretations of life on earth. She studied art independently in Europe and at the University of Puerto Rico, and she received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University. She has had feature articles in Southwest Art and Wildlife Art News and Art Today. She also illustrated Here Is the Southwestern Desert for Hyperion Publishing. She is featured in two recent books, Leading the West: 100 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors by James Haggerty, and Humor In Art by Nicholas Roukes. Her paintings also appear in Acrylics Bold and New. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections such as Whitney Museum of Western Art, Smithsonian Institution, Eiteljorg Museum, Midwest Museum of American Art, Museo de Bellas Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico and McDonald's Corporation. She exhibits her painting in various galleries throughout the United States, and Polly Larsen represents her in Scottsdale at the Cultural Exchange Gallery. Ms. Coe is involved in many community arts and conservation projects. She is co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Superstition Area Land Trust. She is on several boards and commissions and has been appointed by two governors to serve on the State Land Conservation Advisory Board. Please contact the Larsen Gallery-(480-941-0900) "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones" "It Takes Two to Tango" "Liar, Liar Pants on Fire" 3 artworks acrylic and canvas, 40"H X 30"W Particpating Artists: Marco A. 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