Free Speech Zones and Art

Artists in Residence at the Rio Grande Valley Museum
presents

Free Speech Zones and Art , a presentation and demonstration by René Z. Garza.

This Saturday June 25th, a stencil demonstration from 11am - 1pm.

Exactos will be made available and you can make your own stencil! Spray painting of images will take place outside, in the museum courtyard. Bring your exactos and images if so inclined. Also you can bring any surface to be spray painted on.

Also, This Saturday following the stencil demonstration is a multimedia presentation on Free Speech Zones and Art from 1:30 -3:00.

The presentation consists of Garza's experiments with alternative spaces, Free Speech Zones, guerilla art and in short a public art. His current series Les Nouvelles Recuperees/Recycled News/Noticias Recicladas, which hijacks the newspaper to bring the world not in accordance with CNN will be presented. As well as grounds for public sculpture and art actions.

The Artists in Residence exhibit featuring RGV Artists runs until July 9th 2005.

The Rio Grande Valley Museum is located at 2425 Boxwood at Raintree, on Loop 499
from Valley International Airport and TSTC.
Hours: Tues-Sat 10AM-4PM
Sunday 1-4PM
Monday-Closed
956.430.8500

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Personal Note: Got word of this event from local RGV artist and activist Rene Garza. Sounds very interesting and if you are not into art, then I would also encourage those who are pollitically active to attend this event to get a perspective as to how art is being used as an agent of social and political change. I also like Rene Garza's art for the performance element he adds to his work, which is a rare find in the Valley. You will find many artists working in a traditional mediums but not many performance artists. In art school I took a few performance art classes and let me tell you, I was horrible at it! haha. And it all varies, some performance art just horrible, HORRIBLE! And then you will see one piece, that just completely moves you and you're intrigued and captivated. Ah...performance art..you either love it or hate it.