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Sarita Garcia

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Sarita Garcia is a Chicago based artist, educator, and cultural worker, born and raised in South Tejas. Garcia holds a Master of Art in Arts Education (MAAE) and a Bachelors in Fine Arts with a focus in Fiber and Materials studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Garcia is celebrating ten years of expansive experience within arts education, working alongside and in non-profits, cultural institutions, artist galleries and micro-organizations centered on youth based art programming such as the Hyde Park Art Center, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art, CAPE, SAIC, Marwen and Yollocalli Arts Reach. Alongside working within specific art education programming, Garcia is a fiber artist and printmaker, informed by architectural spaces of her vernacular culture using an image archive of markets to talk about consumerism, identity and cultural hubs. These "Fantasyscapes" showcase a vocabulary of iconography as a means to empower and remix the reality of these spaces. Garcia has exhibited work in Chicago such as the National Museum of Mexican Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Art Department, Chicago Cultural Center, Roots & Culture, Heaven Gallery, ACRE, Mana Contemporary, SITE Galleries and Sullivan Galleries. Nationally, Garcia has shown in Laband Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA, City Gallery San Diego, CA, and Blue Star Contemporary San Antonio, Texas. Garcia has been featured on the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic and Southside Weekly.

Garcia resides in the West Side of Chicago where you can find her in the studio alongside her partner and two dogs, Floresita and Rocko. There you can hear cumbia and salsa tunes with lots of laughs and warm food. 

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In this course, a wide range of processes for screenprinting onto fabric and alternative substrates are demonstrated, including the use of textile inks, fiber reactive dyes, resist and discharge, and heat transfers of foils and disperse dyes. Students will use hand drawn, computer generated, and photographic images to explore foundational screen print techniques and concepts such as monoprinting, multiples, color relationships, composition, and basic repeat patterns. Interdisciplinary and experimental uses of the printed surface are encouraged throughout the development of personal research and practice. The class is augmented by relevant lectures, readings and visits to AIC, artist studios and galleries. Students present finished and in-process works at three critiques throughout the semester.

Class Number

1205

Credits

3