Local artist brings creativity workshops back to HCC for Hispanic Heritage Month

By Sara Tubbs

Sep 30, 2014

How do you get noticed without being disruptive? How do you fit into the bigger scheme? Are you a team player?

Visual Artist Laura López Cano wants you to really think about these questions when you take one of her workshops.

She calls them “life lessons.” In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, López Cano is hosting training sessions at various campuses in the Houston Community College District during October.

The workshops are educational, thought-provoking and creativity-driven with the goal of creating self-awareness and team building.

“Art is everything, it’s a tool to life lessons,” López Cano said. “If you’re painting on paper or any kind of surface, too much force will cause it to collapse.”

Individual expression and how it fits into teamwork is the idea behind The Mural Project at West Loop center and South campus. Students come up with a theme, paint it on individual canvases, then bring the canvases together to create one, large mural. The end result is a display of unity through art.

López Cano has been a part of Hispanic Heritage Month at Houston Community College for several years. Annually she hosts workshops across the district. Another workshop, The Journey-Journal Project, will be hosted at Felix Fraga campus. Students share their visions through words in an exercise that challenges them to discover who they are.

The leadership arts and interactive workshop at the Northeast Northline campus will allow students to use T-shirts as canvases to communicate their thoughts.

For more information on the workshops of López Cano, please visit www.lauralopezcano.com.