Primary Colors and Banner Making 10 Weeks Art Course for Social Change:

Carlos likes to convey political message in his paintings and in this course, students will learn to create consciousness and awareness in their community through art or to express who they are and the way they see the world based on their interactions with it.

This course will focus on teaching primary and secondary colors, how to combine them to create all the others different colors. We will mainly work in still life objects that have different surfaces and are made from different materials such as: glass, plastic, metals and wood. Students will also learn about banner making, from letters for signs to learn practical ways to create painting molds. Critical thinking, creativity and a lot of practice will be a fundamental part of this entire course.

The course will last 10 weeks, 2 hours of class (6-8pm) once a week. Class will run every Friday starting October 4th through December 6th. 1 week before our course starts, Carlos will send a list with the tools and materials needed for the course. Don't forget to Bring your creativity and imagination to class!

About our sliding scale and student policy:
The sliding scale for this course is $175-300. Please pay what you can on the scale. The higher end helps us subsidize the materials cost, instructor fee and Mayday programming. We will need a minimum of 10 students to proceed with the class. If we don't meet the minimum we will notify you and 100% refund your payment.

About CARLOS CEFERINO HERNANDEZ SOSA:
I am one of the thousands Honduran migrants who left their country fleeing poverty, violence, corruption and lack of opportunities. I fled to the United States looking for a better life when I was 15. I am now 27 years old. I crossed illegally the Honduran-Guatemalan border and the Guatemalan-Mexican border. I was alone, an unaccompanied child. I was an undocumented migrant in Mexico as well, a country that I crossed on La Bestia, the cargo train that crosses into the U.S. I could not cross that border. When I tried, I was caught by the U.S. Immigration Police, known as ICE. After that, I spent almost a year in a detention center for minor children in Houston, Texas. I was deported back to Honduras and after two months, I decided to start my journey again. I followed the same paths, but ICE caught me for second time. I was locked in a detention center and the story goes on. How am I still here? It’s a long story I would love to share with you some other time.

I love to draw and pain, when I was 12 years old I did pain signs for Delis, grocery store, electronics stores and many different small business, I used it as a way to make some money to help my mother to pay the bills and to buy food, the rest I use to go to school. I have experience making banners for different political campaigns and social justice movements in Seattle and New York. I worked on the $15 dollars an hour campaign in Seattle, also for the anti-eviction candidate Josh Ferris campaign to get into Seattle City Council, also in Casa Latina I did banners for immigration reform in 2012 and for May Day Celebration. In New York I did banners and created art materials for Ayotzinapa and also to support Venezuela. I also did banners to demand the resignation of Honduran Dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez.