CANCELLED - Mask Making 2-Day Workshop

  • February 15 - 22, 2025

  • Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery at Arizona Center

    455 North 3rd Street
    Phoenix, Arizona 85004
This event is now over
Description

Due to low registration this event has been cancelled. Look for new dates and times to be announced soon.

Learn how to make a plaster bandage and paper clay mask with artist and master sculptor Zarco Guerrero. In this 2-day workshop, you will learn the technique perfected by Zarco on how to create and personalize a mask sculpted to your face!

Participants will leave this 2-day workshop with their own completed ready to wear one-of-a-kind mask!

Artists can receive a 25% off (limited space available) - Send a screenshot of your Articipant page, website, or artist social media account to contact@culturalcoalition.com to receive promo code.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zarco Guerrero, muralist, sculptor, mask maker, storyteller, and performance artist, was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. He has dedicated his artistic endeavors to create positive social change through the arts. Zarco has exhibited his sculptures and masks in Mexico and throughout the United States. He has painted over 45 mural projects nationwide and has had his artwork in many Museums around the Southwest, including a retrospective exhibition of over 200 pieces of art featured at the Northern Arizona Museum in Flagstaff. Known for his storytelling and masks, Zarco's work has been used in a variety of theater companies including Childsplay, Black Theater Troupe, Borderlands Theater, to name a few. His unique style of mask making is a natural expression of his artistic practices and influences which included studying mask making with masters of the craft in Japan, Bali, and Mexico. Visit zarkmask.com to learn more about Zarco and his art. 

MORE DETAILS
Workshop Price: $75+taxes (Artist Rate) and $100+taxes covers all materials, support of the artist, processing fees, and a donation to Cultural Coalition.

Dates & Times: February 15 & 22 from 2pm to 4 pm

Parking: Parking garage is located at 401 East Fillmore, Phoenix, AZ 85004 and 2-hour parking validations will be provided to all workshop participants.

Location in AZ Center: Workshop will be held in Suite #1045 - Cultural Coalition's Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery at the Arizona Center (across from the Bank of America and Bosa Donut Storefronts)

Cultural Coalition: A 501c3 charitable organization whose mission is to connect communities and generations to ancestral knowledge and practices through artistic cultural preservation and programs that celebrate Chicano, Latiné, and Indigenous heritages. Visit culturalcoalition.com to learn more. 

ADA ACCOMMODATIONS:
Please submit any requests for ADA accommodations to contact@culturalcoalition.com at least 1 week before the scheduled event.

Date & Time

Feb 15, 2025 2:00 PM - Feb 22, 2025 4:00 PM

Venue Details

Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery at Arizona Center

455 North 3rd Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery at Arizona Center
Cultural Coalition, Inc

Cultural Coalitions’ mission is to connect communities and generations to ancestral knowledge and practices through artistic cultural preservation and programs that celebrate Chicano, Latiné, and Indigenous heritage. For over 28 years, Cultural Coalition has provided free culturally relevant festivals and educational programs to communities throughout Arizona. More details at culturalcoalition.com

We connect with over 35,000 multigenerational individuals annually, prioritizing cultural representation in the arts that also serves those diverse populations. We produce four annual cultural arts festivals in Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe, providing access to free arts engagement opportunities within underserved and low-income communities to remove economic and geographic barriers. Our free online arts resources of interviews, artists chats, and online exhibits provides greater accessibility to the arts, preserving cultural objects, and traditional practices. The newly opened Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery in the Arizona Center in downtown Phoenix presents over 200 pieces of art that have been used in these community festivals for over four decades, and welcomes everyone to come and enjoy for free.

Our programs and events feature professional and youth artists, storytellers, folklórico dancers, mariachi musicians, traditional healers/curanderas, and more, as professional practitioners of ancestral traditions to instill cultural pride in our communities. Cultural Coalition also provides a free daily after school arts program, located inside a low-income housing complex in Mesa. The program provides free meals, homework help, and arts, science, and gardening activities, annually serving over 100 youth in grades K-6.


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