Art Activity

Our Lil Green Thumbs

3 youth painting a sky and sun

The youth in our After School Art Program had a BLAST collaborating with local artist Adrian Garcia “AWER” to design and paint a mural on their grow box in the classroom. They titled it “Our Lil Green Thumbs”, inspired by the plants they’ve been growing. The students then each chose a plant, flower, tree, cloud,…

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You’re Invited: Free Programs at Tempe Center for the Arts

Cultural Coalition is excited to support the Small Island Big Song (SIBS) residency at Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) from February 8 to February 10. Together with TCA and artists from SIBS, we have curated supporting programs that feature collaborations of artists from Arizona with visiting artists from Oceania, culminating a final concert performance…

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Calaca Café: Zúm Zúm Zúm Reunion & Cultural Coalition Fundraiser

Calaca Cafe event flier featuring photos of 4 bands and a giant skeleton puppet

Baila con los muertos, at the Calaca Café!Presented by Crescent Ballroom and Cultural Coalition – Party with giant dancing puppets and Cucui trouble makers, for a historical Zúm Zúm Zúm reunion fundraiser concert and album release fiesta that features a musical line-up of global rhythms from some of the Valleys most popular bands! Audiences will…

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Mask Making Workshop

Back in April, Zarco and Cultural Coalition had some very cool visitors in the studio and at Rancho del Arte – a group of high school students and teachers from Silverton Public School in Colorado! This amazing group of students come from an EL or Expeditionary Learning academic model school. They were working on research…

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Cultural Coalition Receives Gift from Friends of Mexican Art

This January, Cultural Coalition received a $1,700 gift from the Friends of Mexican Art (FOMA) towards the Cultural Coalition Guerrero Family Apprenticeship Program in support of an Arts Studio/Collections/Museum Studies Intern. This gift is intended to encourage the education of future museum professionals in working with and presenting Mexican, Mexican-American and Indigenous art. “After nearly…

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