Local non-profit San Jose Jazz, which produces annual performances and educational events, partners with Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana to host this workshop on making alebrijes. Instructors Pilar Aguero-Esparza and Rayos Magos teach participants the Mexican folk art of carved, brightly colored creatures (real or imagined) using paint and cardboard. Though mostly associated with the city of Oaxaca, the art form was created by Papier-mâché artist Pedro Linares in Mexico City in the 1940s and later popularized by fellow artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Sat, Sept 13, 1:30pm; $35
MACLA, San Jose
