Will you be in the audience for our October 24 concert by Cuarteto Latinoamericano?
If so, be sure to visit EJ’s Robertson Lobby. There you’ll see a wonderful three-panel mural inspired by Mexican artists and created by students from Akron Public Schools’ Firestone Community Learning Center.
This project continues a 10-year collaboration between Tuesday Musical and Akron Public Schools art teacher Patrick Dougherty. Each year, Tuesday Musical commissions the students and Patrick to create beautiful and thought-provoking artworks inspired by our Akron Concert Series. (Tuesday Musical always pays the individual students and purchases supplies for the project.)
“This was a particularly gratifying experience for my students as well as for me,” notes Patrick. “While I knew of the work of Rivera, Kahlo, and Leonara Carrington, I was not aware before of the diversity and beauty of so much of Mexican art.”
Primary student artists:
Brianna Ellerson-Dyer
Amaya Myles
De'Jonae Rivers
Joshua Hernandez Rojas
Estefany Alvarez Vazquez
Assisting student artists:
Brooke Bracey
Rylan Garden
Saniah McCoy
Sarandi Riley
Alaina Tennant
The Firestone students chose to paint portraits of the Mexican artists in black and white, while depicting some of their paintings adjacent in color.
Left panel, top to bottom: artists Francisco Toledo, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera. Middle panel, top to bottom: artists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Olga Costa, José Clemente Orozco. Right panel, top: artists Saturino Herrán, Leonora Carrington; bottom from left to right, artists RufIno Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, Vicente Rojo.