Mesoamerican Visual Language, Symbol and Method Lecture with Hands-On Group Project
with Moira Garcia
Friday, October 3rd, 2025 | 2PM - 4:30PM
204 S Austin St Rockport, TX
$15 Supply Fee - Members Only
Class Information:
Moira Garcia will discuss her artistic practice and present a brief overview of Mesoamerican visual language and pre-Hispanic painting techniques and describe how her works on exhibit in Nepantla: In-Between incorporate both traditional concepts and contemporary methods. RCA members will have the opportunity to create a collaborative painting designed by Garcia, using traditional Mexican amate paper and fibers.
About the Instructor:
Moira Garcia in gallery with Tonalpohualli, Lithograph Monoprint.
(Mesoamerican calendar)
Moira Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and native of New Mexico. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts with a focus in Printmaking from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and a MA in Latin American Studies with concentrations in Art History and Indigenous Studies from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Her work is a visual language of symbol, color, and metaphor that references and interprets ancient visual culture and cosmologies. Garcia creates from a variety of materials and methods to produce multilayered narratives that connect ancestral imageries and the contemporary world.
October 3, 2025
2PM-4:30PM
$15 Supply Fee - Members Only