‘Zines: Little Books with Infinite Potential’ with Laura Rowley
On April 12th, CBAW is excited to welcome book artist Laura Rowley, to our Wednesday Visual Arts Workshop, for a special 90-minute session focused on creating our own zines.
The Story-Gatherer’s Toolkit – a Writing Workshop with Author Tim Z. Hernandez
The Story-Gatherer’s Toolkit with Author Tim Z. Hernandez – April 6th, 2023 at 7 PM EDT
Join us for a special writing workshop with poet, Tim Hernandez, to benefit Community Building Art Works programs for veterans, service members, military families, and health care workers. This workshop is free for Veterans, Service Members, and Healthcare Workers. All ticket sales benefit CBAW’s programs. This workshop will be recorded* and a link will be e-mailed to all ticket holders once the recording is available for viewing.
Testimony, sketch-journaling,text catalogues, field notes, found language, and the sixth sense…there are endless ways of gathering stories and turning information into compelling narrative. In this workshop we’ll explore some of these possibilities, and how we go from raw material to finished product. The author may share excerpts from his books, and will lead us in a playful generative workshop that is open to all genres.
About the facilitator:
Tim Z. Hernandez is an award winning writer and performer. The author of four collections of poetry, two novels, and a work of non-fiction, his writing and research have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, C-Span’s Book TV, and NPR’s All Things Considered. His most recent book, All They Will Call You, the first installment of the plane crash series, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim. His latest collection of poetry, Some of the Light, has just been released in spring 2023 with Beacon Press. Hernandez holds a B.A. from Naropa University and an M.F.A. from Bennington College. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, and he lives in El Paso with his two children.
Success as an Artist with Veteran & Artist Martin Cervantez
Join us on Thursday, March 9th at 7 pm ET for a special workshop with Veteran and artist, Martin Cervantez, to benefit Community Building Art Works programs for veterans, service members, military families, and health care workers. This workshop is free for Veterans, Service Members, and Healthcare Workers. All ticket sales benefit CBAW’s programs. This workshop will be recorded* and a link will be e-mailed to all ticket holders once the recording is available for viewing.
In this professional development workshop, Martin will guide participants through the practices of scouting, applying to, and showing in galleries. Participants will discuss how to make the most use of their websites, social media, and email.
Martin J. Cervantez enlisted in the Army Signal Corps in July 1986 as an Illustrator. His most prestigious assignment was Artist in Residence at the U.S. Army Center of Military History where he was responsible for capturing the Army’s history through art. He deployed to Afghanistan in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 2008, and 2011. During these deployments he produced artwork that visually recorded Soldiers’ experiences the Army’s achievements. Two of his oil paintings were recently featured in the National Constitution Center’s public exhibition “Art of the American Soldier” in Philadelphia.
Martin is a self-taught artist who has created art since he was a child. He’s used art as his own therapy during recovery from his recent six surgeries. Martin also advocates for veteran’s art programs, and was involved at the USO Ft Belvoir, and Walter Reed; Warrior Writers from Philadelphia, and Combat Paper New Jersey, and George Mason University. Cervantez is also known for turning the Workhouse guard towers into static kaleidoscopes by using colored films on the windows of the towers, creating a dynamic piece of art that changes with time of day, and position of view. The towers were featured in the L.A. Times; From Wrongs, Rights, Los Angeles Times, L1, Travel Section, November 2, 2017. He is the 2017 recipient of the Prince William County Kathleen Seefeldt Award for Outstanding Artist.
Martin’s art gained international acclaim for his Berlin Airlift mural/assemblage in Wiesbaden, Germany, 2018, which was commissioned by the United States Army Europe. Cervantez currently resides in San Diego, where he creates art, and gives workshops to veterans.
*Recording will only contain workshop lessons. All other participant video will be edited for user privacy. Only registered participants will have access to the recorded workshop.
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