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STEAM Educator Open House | Free

Ignite your creativity and curiosity at this STEAM Educator Open House!  Art and science collide in a vibrant celebration of innovation and learning with interactive workshops and hands-on activities that showcase adaptable lesson plans for your classroom.  Explore a variety of engaging booths hosted by community partners offering tools, ideas, and opportunities to enhance your STEAM curriculum.

Bring a colleague, a friend, your family, o todos! And take a break in the calming corner, explore bilingual STEAM books in the reading nook, make art, and snap a picture in the photo booth!

Teachers, parents and children are welcome to participate!

Image: Courtesy of Columbia Memorial Space Center

STEAM Educator Kit

Pick up an activity booklet at the registration table and collect a stamp at each booth area. Collect five stamps and receive a special Educator Kit to inspire your classroom curriculum.

About the STEAM Educator Kit

Prepare for Día de los Muertos with a special STEAM activity kit that explores the science, art, and cultural symbolism of the Monarch Butterfly. This kit includes adaptable science activities to explore with your classroom, as well as all the materials needed to make your own tapete de arena, inspired by intricate sand art crafted throughout Oaxaca during Day of the Dead celebrations.

Program

9am – Registration

10am – Keynote Speaker, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes

11am – Open House Exploration and Concurrent Workshops

Make a Photographic Blueprint in the Garden by Mujeres de Maíz

Learn about the process and formula of a cyanotype reaction using natural sunlight. Create your own art print using flowers and leaves from the garden. Facilitated by Lilia Ramirez aka “Liliflor” from Mujeres de Maíz.

Garden School Foundation Workshop

12 pm Concurrent Workshops

Make a Photographic Blueprint in the Garden by Mujeres de Maíz

Garden School Foundation Workshop

1pm – Event ends

This event will include coffee and pastries in the morning and a light lunch at noon.

Resource Booths and Activities presented by:

ArtSpace HP

Columbia Memorial Space Center

Garden School Foundation

Stay Gallery

California State Parks

Natural History Museum of L.A.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (National Park Service)

Creative areas

Calming Corner: Take a wellness break

Reading Nook: Explore bilingual and culturally relevant STEAM books

Art-Making Stations: Take a creative break

Photo Booth: Snap a picture with your teacher bestie

Keynote Speaker, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes

A woman with long black hair waring a brown jacket, and colorful yellow earings looks a the camera.Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes is a Xicana Indigenous artist, activist, femcee, designer, poet, professor and practitioner of the healing arts from East Los Angeles. Having shared as a speaker, performer or workshop facilitator at hundreds of campuses and community spaces she is known throughout the Southwest as an established Xicana cultural worker of a new generation who has worked on various transnational art and organizing efforts including work with the Zapatistas, Peace & Dignity Journeys and La Red Xicana Indigena.

Felicia is the co-founder and director of Mujeres de Maiz, In Lak Ech, Botanica del Barrio and El MERCADO y Mas and Assistant Professor in Chicanx/Latinx Arts and Social Practice at Cal State University Long Beach. She has published in the books Fleshing the Spirit, Voices from the Ancestors, and MeXicana Fashions and is the co-editor of the book Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice and Feminist Praxis (University of Arizona Press, 2024) www.FeliciaMontes.com

As a healing arts practitioner, Felicia has studied Western Herbalism, Mexican Traditional Medicine and Indigenous dance. Through La Botanica del Barrio, she offers wellness and self-care workshops to a variety of audiences and ages and created her line of holistic health items. Felicia graduated with a B.A from UCLA in World Arts & Cultures with a minor in Chicana/o Studies, an M.A in Chicana/o Studies from Cal State Northridge, and a M.F.A from Otis College of Art & Design in Public Practice Art.

 

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WHAT IS PST ART

PST ART is a groundbreaking cultural collaboration. Every five years, PST ART unites hundreds of artists around a single, electrifying theme at more than 60 exhibition spaces. While the theme is different each time, the heart of PST ART is always the distinctive cultural identity of Southern California, and the universal hunger for artistic and intellectual discovery. In a region famed for its films and theme parks, PST ART provides a different kind of gripping experience— and the most distinctively Southern Californian of all.

 

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