The Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center will feature
Puerto Rican artist Lucy Llera in our next Workshop on Puerto Rican
Studies. This workshop will display her artwork rich in Puerto Rican
cultural themes and provide a hands-on art project for children.
Lucy will also be bringing beautiful examples of carnival masks from
Puerto Rico and teach us about their history. Her arts
and crafts project will teach children how to make a vejigante mask
of their very own to take home. Something fun for every age!
This two-hour art showing and vejigante mask workshop will take place on Saturday, January 31, from 1-3pm at the Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center. Admission is FREE to current Cultural Center students and participants! Donations from visitors appreciated.
Please register by email (dance@prfdance.org) or phone (512-251-8122) by January 25 to help estimate craft materials and refreshments. The Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center is located at 507B Pressler Street in Austin Texas (between MOPAC & Lamar, off 5th).
Biography - Lucy Llera
Lucy Llera was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico. She
received her bachelors degree in art and education
from
the University of Puerto Rico, and was an art
teacher for over 13 years in Cidra. In 1982 she
moved to Texas where she studied art at the
University of Texas at San Antonio. Afterwards she
continued her teaching career in bilingual
education,
for which she has received awards. From 1984-93,
Lucy
studied painting with Warren Hunter, a respected
artist in
San Antonio, and later with Daniel Green and
Dalhart Wingberg. She is a member of the Water
Color Society,
the Calligraphy Guild, and the Coppini Academy of
Fine
Arts. In Coppini, she received awards such as
Artist of the Month and 2nd prize in oil painting.
Since 1986 she has been a member of Sociedad
Herencia Puertorriquena, a San-Antonio based Puerto
Rican cultural organization, for whom she has created
cultural-themed posters for their annual festivals.