Kick off the holiday season of your dreams with our art-making stations for the whole family inspired by the magical realism of Juana Alicia. Explore dazzle and sparkle as you make art, including embossed tin art inspired by Mexican folk art repujados with special guest artist Rachel-Anne Palacios. Local artist Walt Williams will lead a 3D art activity and Alejandra Rubio will lead a printmaking activity.
Plus, enjoy a performance by members of the ViVO Youth Orchestra! Stay for the day and then grab a spot for the lighting of Sonoma Plaza.
Saturday, November 23, 11 AM-4 PM
Free for children under 18, $10 per parent.
Pre-registration is recommended.
Rachel-Anne Palacios is an Afro-Chicana Oakland native, multi-cultural arts educator, and self-taught folk artist. She has been creating and sharing art that reflects her respect for culture, spirituality, traditional values, elders, and the cycle of life and death for over 20 years. Rachel-Anne has taught art workshops and classes at Bay Area schools and libraries for over a decade and a half. Indigenous cultures and traditional art inspire her lessons and projects. Rachel-Anne’s mission is to make participants feel seen and heard through their creative voices while continuing to practice core curriculum standards. She is the Multicultural arts instructor at Esperanza and Korematsu Elementary schools in Oakland.
Alejandra Rubio is a printmaker, cultural curator, and community advocate from San Francisco. She is fascinated by the power of radical imagination through dreaming up and creating art. This has led her to pursue a career as an arts educator for the last two years. She was most recently awarded the YBCA Creative Corp Grant where she launched her youth arts program, Creative Seeds of Activism. She has been a cultural bearer with Arte Unidos for the last 3 years, sustaining this project’s legacy by collaborating with local businesses and providing solo shows to local marginalized artists. She is currently the 2024-2025 R.A.I.C.E.S. Fellow at Galeria de la Raza.
Walt Williams calls the art room at SVMA his Sandlot. He has been working with Sonoma youth for 25 years: Teaching, coaching, creating and working camps plus putting up giant letters around the community. He believes strongly in equity for all and loves creating with students, especially during the Holiday Make-In.