HOLA’s Visual Arts Program provides quality programming to inner-city youth who have little or no access to such classes inside or outside of school. HOLA’s visual arts curriculum is designed and delivered by professional art instructors, college professors and passionate volunteer artists who combine their efforts to provide intensive arts education for at-risk youth. Each year, over 300 elementary, middle and high school students participate in the Visual Arts Program.
Classes
Each year, students can choose from more than 100 classes in 16 different art forms, including ceramics, photography, painting, sculpture, fashion design, illustration, printmaking, mixed media, screen printing, watercolor, graphic design, new media and public art.
Facilities
HOLA’s Visual Arts Department recently relocated to the historic Wilshire Royale building. The space houses an extensive art library and studio and boasts large street-side windows, providing ample opportunity for the students to connect to the community.
Gallery/Exhibits
The Visual Arts Department curates four themed exhibitions throughout the year to showcase the creative accomplishments of HOLA’s young artists. The shows are held in HOLA’s gallery located in the Wilshire Royale.
Field Trips
Visual Arts Department students are given the opportunity to go on monthly field trips to art galleries, artist studios, museums, arts schools and a number of other cultural institutions around the city.
“Meet the Artist” Series
At least once every month, students attend “Meet the Artist” talks and workshops at which professional artists from the community and all over the world come to HOLA to share their experiences and work. Last year, HOLA welcomed artists that included among them curators, painters, illustrators, photographers, muralists, musicians, filmmakers and set designers.
“Artist Mentor in Residence”
HOLA’s “Artist Mentor in Residence” program provides residencies in HOLA’s Visual Arts Department for high school graduates who are enrolled in college. The internships are designed to provide the students with the opportunity to continue to create art, apprentice with HOLA’s professional art instructors and mentor young artists.
Partners
Sarah Brin
Teaching Artist/New Media
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Sarah is an educator, curator and experience designer in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in European Cultural Studies from Brandeis University, and an M.A. in Public Art Studies from the University of Southern California. Most of her research at USC related to artists’ games, public spaces, and participatory exhibition-making. She’s had the privilege of designing and/or producing experiences for a variety of institutions, including Babycastles, The Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, LACE, Machine Project and 826LA. She’s also the Creative Director for GlitchLab, and a co-founder of PEG-LA, a playtest group for pervasive and environmental games.
Javier Carrillo
Teaching Artist/Fine Art
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Javier is an alumnus of HOLA. At the age of 10, Javier discovered his love for art through his art classes at HOLA. He went on to become the first Artist in Residence in the Visual Arts Department. After gaining experience working as an intern and teacher's assistant he became an art instructor and currently teaches classes in drawing, painting, and skateboard design. “Since I became aware of my talent as an artist, I have found fulfillment and good fortune. I’m part of a group known as “Los Sietes.” As an Artist in residence at HOLA, he enjoyed the freedom and support provided by the organization. Javier presented a workshop at the Georgia College of Art and participated in a show at the Faculty Club at Stanford. Besides working as an instructor at HOLA, he works as a Teaching Artist at Art Division and continues to work on his own painting. He recently had a one-man show at Mama's Hot Tamales and has received a number of mural commissions at schools in the Los Angeles region. Javier most recently completed a tapestry under the tutelage of John Nava that now hangs in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center at USC.
Maria Galicia
Visual Arts Coordinator
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Maria was born in Morelos, México and was raised in Los Angeles. After attending HOLA as a student since 1999, in 2008 she had her first exhibit at the Rebecca Ibel Gallery in Ohio. She has been in many group shows, including a show at the Stanford University Faculty Club and she assisted well-known artist Peter Alexander in a print project he did at HOLA. She assisted artist Dan McCleary on a federal mural commission in New Mexico. She also assisted her husband, Javier Carrillo, in his commission for a tapestry for the University of Southern California. While working at HOLA, Maria started a Taller de Madres workshop. Mothers of HOLA students come in once a week and participate in art classes taught by Maria, while their kids attend HOLA art classes. Maria attended Penland School of Arts and Craft in the summer of 2010. In addition to her duties at HOLA, Maria is currently attending Pasadena City College and is the Assistant Director at Art Division, a nonprofit organization.
Emmanuel Galvez
Artist Mentor in Residence
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Emmanuel was born in Mexico City in 1991. At the age of 12, his family moved to Los Angeles. After living in LA for a year, Emmanuel joined HOLA. He immediately discovered the art department and dedicated himself to becoming an artist. Currently he is in his second year at Santa Monica City College. As the first generation of his family to go to college, he hopes to transfer to a four year art school. Emmanuel is currently an HOLA Artist Mentor in Resident. The residency is a year-long position to mentor HOLA youth in the arts, create and share artwork, assist HOLA staff in workshops and special projects, and be an active presence in the HOLA Art Studio.
Pearl Hsiung
Teaching Artist/Painting
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Pearl received her BA at the University of California, Los Angeles (1997) and her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London (2004). She has had solo exhibitions at Max Wigram Gallery, London (2006) and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2007). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including Humor Us at the Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery (2007); 2006 California Biennial and Disorderly Conduct: Art in Tumultuous Times (2008) both at the Orange County Museum of Art; 2006 Busan Biennale, South Korea and Expander, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, London (2005).
Salvador Reyes
Teaching Artist/Mixed Media
Home Phone: home(213) 389-1144
Salvador completed his degree in Fine Art in El Salvador. He went on to receive a teaching credential and become a school principal, where he also taught art and algebra. He has over twenty years of experience teaching youth about art. At HOLA, Salvador has been teaching his mixed media curriculum for the past nine years.
Michael Russo
Teaching Artist/Ceramics
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1148
In addition to twenty years of experience teaching elementary through high school students the art of ceramics, Mike is an accomplished and well recognized professional ceramicist. He graduated magna cum laude from Humbolt State, with a B.A. in Industrial Technology and a Minor in Studio Art. He went on to complete an M.A. in Psychology, with a concentration in Child Studies, from Antioch University. Mike has been the ceramics instructor at HOLA since 2006.
Claudio Stickar
Teaching Artist/Print Making
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Claudio has been a Master Printer for the last 29 years. He studied the art of printmaking at California State University, Long Beach and California State University, Northridge. Throughout his career he has worked with world renowned artists, including Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein. Claudio also worked at Gemini Gel for over ten years. Currently, he teaches printmaking at HOLA and at Pasadena City College.
Patricia Yossen
Teaching Artist/Sculpture, Mixed Media
Work Phone: work(213) 389-1144
Patricia has undergraduate degrees in Art Education and Sculpture from her native Argentina. She has an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She has lived and worked in Argentina, Mexico, New York and Los Angeles and has also shown her work in Spain and Canada. She currently lives and works in Eagle Rock. In addition to working at HOLA, she is an instructor at LACMA. Patricia teaches sculpture, open studios and mixed media.
NEWS
HOLA is thrilled and honored to announce that we have been chosen as a recipient of an Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant (AIC) from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. The AIC grant program supports fearless and innovative collaborations in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg and is the first national competitive grant program for the Foundation. The [...]
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