Name: Intermediate Beading Workshop
Start: 2025-03-13T01:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-13T03:00:00+00:00
Location: Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery at Arizona Center

Description

Learn the art of adornment with master beader, Carmen Guerrero. In this two hour workshop, you will learn how to create your own beautiful jewelry with simple, easy-to-replicate designs. Beads and materials will be provided, just bring your creativity! This intermediate workshop will go over different kinds of designs for various skill levels. Beading experience not required.

Participants will leave this 2-hour workshop with their own completed beaded bracelet!

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Carmen de Novais Guerrero, founder and jewelry designer of Carmens Creations, started beading as a little girl in northeastern Brazil, learning from her grandmother. A descendant of the Kambiwá tribe from the northern state of Pernambuco, Carmen began her beading journey by learning how to perforate and string seeds in the backyard, delighted in making colorful, simple necklaces to wear and give to friends as gifts. Throughout her life, she has explored this traditional artform, constantly challenging herself to dream up new patterns, techniques and exciting color combinations. Learn more at carmencreations.com .

Carmen is also the Executive Director of Cultural Coalition, Inc, producing annual cultural festivals, partnering with other local arts organizations, championing the preservation and celebration of the traditional cultural arts. As an educator and teaching artist for various area schools, she shares her indigenous roots through music and art to foster multicultural understanding. As an artivist/arts advocate, she co-founded Xicanindio (now Xico, Inc.), the Arizona Latino Arts Center, and the Cultural Coalition.

MORE DETAILS
Workshop Price: $35+taxes covers all materials, support of the artist, processing fees, and a donation to Cultural Coalition

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

Wed, Mar 12, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Venue Details

Mask Alive Art Collection Gallery at Arizona Center

455 North 3rd Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85004

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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