ASCO: Without Permission
Join Serpentina Arts for the Minneapolis debut of ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION (@ascofilm) directed by Travis Gutiérrez Senger, with executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and starring Patssi Valdez, Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, and Gronk.
Serpentina Arts has 30 free tickets for the screening on Wednesday, June 17, at 7:00pm at The Main Cinema in Minneapolis.
Email us at serpentina.arts@gmail.com to claim your ticket. First come, first serve!
ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION is a genre-defying film that profiles the extraordinary, Los Angeles based, Chicano art group of the 70's-80's, ASCO, who merged activism and art as they challenged representation in the art world, Hollywood and the news media. Unrecognized in their time, they are now being considered amongst the most important artists of the 20th century. Utilizing a wholly original approach to filmmaking where nonfiction and fiction are interconnected through collaborative film works made with the next generation of Latinx artists, "Without Permission" reimagines what is possible today in cinema and art while celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far ahead of its time. From executive producers, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.
GRAPHIC MEMOIR FOR LATINE ARTISTS
Announcing a new workshop taught by Camila Leiva:
GRAPHIC MEMOIR FOR LATINE ARTISTS!
If you’ve never made comics, but always wanted to try, this is your chance! And if you make comics and want a dedicated space to learn and create in the company of other Latine artists, this is also your chance!
Teacher bio: Camila Leiva is a comic artist from Santiago, Chile, born in 1987 during the final years of the military dictatorship. She began making comics in 2016 as a way to tell her family’s stories and process her own experiences, studying under comic artist Marcela Trujillo (@maliki4ojos) and developing a hand-drawn style using pen and ink. Since then, she has self-published short comics and zines, and earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2023. Her current work focuses on a graphic novel about her grandmother, human rights lawyer Fabiola Letelier, whose fight for justice during the dictatorship deeply shaped Camila’s childhood. Camila has received two Minnesota State Arts Board grants to support the project. In 2023, a short comic about her grandmother’s memory loss was published in Brigida Magazine (@revistabrigida )
When: Starts Wednesday, July 1st and goes for six consecutive Wednesdays.
The dates of the sessions are: 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5
Time: From 6-8pm
Location: Curiosity Studio, 3607 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
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Anunciando un nueva clase que voy a dar:
CÓMIC AUTOBIOGRÁFICO PARA ARTISTAS LATINES!
Si nunca has hecho cómics, pero siempre has querido, ¡esta es tu oportunidad! Si ya haces cómics y te gustaría un tiempo dedicado para crear y aprender en comunidad con otros artistas Latines, ¡esta también es tu oportunidad!
Para registrarse escribir a: CAMILALEI@GMAIL.COM
La clase comienza miércoles, 1 de julio, y dura seis miércoles consecutivos. La clase será de mucho valor para les participantes, pero es gratuita! Recibí un fondo del estado de Minnesota para educación artística. La clase será en el hermoso espacio de @curiositystudio_ en la Lake Street.
Camila Leiva es una dibujante de cómics de Santiago de Chile, nacida en 1987 durante los últimos años de la dictadura militar. Comenzó a crear cómics en 2016 como una forma de contar las historias de su familia y procesar sus propias experiencias, estudiando con la dibujante Marcela Trujillo (@maliki4ojos) y desarrollando un estilo de dibujo a mano con pluma y tinta. Desde entonces, ha autopublicado cómics cortos y fanzines, y obtuvo una Maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Minnesota en 2023. Su trabajo actual se centra en una novela gráfica sobre su abuela, la abogada de derechos humanos Fabiola Letelier, cuya lucha por la justicia durante la dictadura marcó profundamente la infancia de Camila. Camila ha recibido dos becas del Consejo Estatal de las Artes de Minnesota para apoyar el proyecto. En 2023, un cómic corto sobre la pérdida de memoria de su abuela se publicó en la revista Brigida (@revistabrigida).
The Star Party
The Star Party is an art making activity, community gathering, and overhead projector story telling time for anxious, irritated, and scared adults.
August 23rd 5:17-8:09pm, Class starts at 6:17pm
Studio #247 - Northrup King Building
RSVP by August 23rd using this link.
All At Once
Meet All at Once, a Twin Cities–based collective of visionary puppeteers of color. Sofía Padilla, Oanh Vu, Andrew Young, and Erica Warren combine their diverse cultural roots and artistic practices to create bold, immersive performances through shadow, tabletop, and rod puppetry.
Developed through story circles with BIPOC South Minneapolis residents, their new show, Boundless / Sin límites, invites audiences into a fantastical world grounded in local history and lived experience. In this work, Sol, a young person sheltering in place from ICE is swept into a time-traveling journey by Coyote, a trickster deity—moving through the layered histories of the Southside while uncovering identity, migration, and connection to community.
Blending visual storytelling with memory, myth, and place, All at Once creates an immersive experience that bridges personal and collective transformation.
Suggested age range: 12+. Content Warning: includes cursing, depictions of detention & deportation, ICE, and mild physical violence.
Pay what you can. Purchase tickets here.
Weekend Workshop: Blue Poems Under the Sun: Cyanotype Printmaking
At Highpoint Center for Printmaking
This workshop combines creative writing with hands-on cyanotype printmaking. Participants will begin by writing a short poem (either during class or brought from home) drawing inspiration from BIPOC poets who work with brevity, such as haiku or micro-poems.
Students will then layer text with natural or found objects on light-sensitive cyanotype paper to create visual-poetic prints. The workshop emphasizes experimentation, reflection, and the relationship between language and image, resulting in unique blue-toned prints that merge writing and photography-based printmaking.
This workshop will be taught in both English and Spanish.
Date/Time: Sunday, 10am-4pm; 4/19
Ages: 18+
Cost: $100
Registration deadline: Register by 4/12/26
Maximum enrollment: 12
Instructor: Lucino Sosa
Skill Level: Beginner level, no previous experience required.
Weekend Workshop: Relief Printing: Food for Thought!
At Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Food can be a direct reflection of our culture, comforts, values, and personality! Food plays a large role in human connection and socialization. Did you know, research shows eating in good company positively supports digestion?
In this workshop, participants will bring in an image of one or more food items that have personal, cultural, political, or familial significance – or simply an item they like! Some suggestions include cultural foods, celebratory foods, comfort foods, the ingredients for a family recipe, staple pantry items, go-to spices, condiments, sauces, beverages, nostalgic snacks, herbs, or favorite produce.
Through demonstrations, participants will learn how to identify positive & negative space, safe carving practices, different carving techniques, and effective ink application to create relief prints of their food items on paper, tote bags, and/or bandanas. Participants will also collaborate with other participants and combine relief prints to create “grocery haul” style prints.
Ages: 16+
Cost: $100
Registration deadline: Register by 4/5/26
Maximum enrollment: 12
Instructor: Sherrill Zheng
Skill Level: Previous relief printing and drawing experience is helpful, but not required.
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