Image Transfer: Remake/Remodel - A Workshop with Albert Velasco

Albert Velasco will share his journey with art and life and lead students through a workshop on how to use a natural, non-toxic solvent to transfer photocopy images to paper to create unique and interesting prints.

Image Transfer: Remake/Remodel - A Workshop with Albert Velasco
Countee Cullen, 104 W 136th St, NY

Programs are free and begin at 3:30pm.
No previous art experience is required.
Materials will be provided.
Ages 12 to 18

ABOUT
Albert Velasco was born and raised in California. Primarily a self-taught artist, he has lived and worked in New York since 1982. His work has been exhibited in New York, California and India.

Visual AIDS teams up with the New York Public Library to present a series of artist workshops for young adults in conjunction with their exhibition, WHY WE FIGHT: Remembering AIDS Activism. This series of interactive workshops, lead by artists living with HIV, will take place at library branches across Manhattan and the Bronx. Participants will gain artistic and creative skills, and learn more about HIV/AIDS history and activism.

MAC AIDS Fund is the Lead Corporate Sponsor of the Why We Fight exhibition and related programming.This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney, with additional support from the LGBT Initiative of The New York Public Library. Time Warner is a founding supporter of the LGBT Initiative.Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, and Jonathan Altman.