Tengo La Voz
Sep 12, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009
Tengo La Voz consists of various media collected over the last year through the collaboration between the Sonoma County Museum, The Public Library, and KRCB radio station. The exhibition amplifies the voices of Sonoma County’s Latino youth. Through the vision of Latino artist Julio César Morales, the museum has hosted several workshops where the youth have created reflective content that highlights their lives and experiences. One such workshop was held at Roseland University Prep where Morales led a high school art class through a conceptual exploration of the anti-hero. Each class member chose a person in their life that they are close to but who has qualities that they are in direct conflict with in some way. After, compiling images that reflected their respective anti-hero, they created beautiful artworks. The images included an encoded message describing their conflicted feelings. While the conceptual nature of the project took some time to get across, in the end many of the students were able to talk candidly about the profound nature of these relationships and how they have influenced their lives. Workshops such as these will continue throughout the exhibition.
This exhibition was supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional funding was provided by the Hugh Futrell Corporation, Kendall-Jackson Winery, the Stuppin Fund for the Arts, Kevin Konicek and Michelle Zyromski, Donna and Robert Endicott, Chelinos and Mi Burrito.
Additional project space at 7th & Mendocino off-site gallery which is a collaboration between Sonoma County Museum, KRCB, Sonoma County Library & ArtStart.
