Introduction

Art After Work: Soda Can Mosaics with Norma Rios-Sierra at the WasteShed

Thursday, May 16, 2024
5:30-7:30 p.m.
1754 N. Kimball Ave, Chicago

Art After Work: Soda Can Mosaics with Norma Rios-Sierra at the WasteShed

Join Intuit at the Wasteshed’s Logan Square location for a mosaic workshop using upcycled aluminum cans with artist Norma Rios-Sierra. Art After Work is pay what you choose. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists. Register here.

Photo courtesy of Norma Rios-Sierra and the WasteShed

Materials Provided:

  • Hammers
  • Finishing nails
  • Aluminum cans
  • Scissors
  • Xacto knives
  • Scrap wood
  • Protective gloves
  • Ear plugs

Workshop Description

Participants will repurpose aluminum cans to create colorful mosaics. Bring your own cans and incorporate a personal touch!

Meet Norma Rios-Sierra

Norma Rios-Sierra grew up in Logan Square, Chicago. Norma’s work consists of stained glass and mosaics and is often inspired by her experience as a Mexican immigrant. Norma’s most recent work embodies community, unity and the idea that we all belong and deserve to feel welcome and safe.

Accessibility Note

This workshop involves hammering, and there will be loud noise in the space. Masks are required for this event.

Tickets

Art After Work is pay what you choose. Your contributions help ensure the sustainability of our public programs and support guest lecturers and teaching artists.

About the WasteShed

The WasteShed provides Chicago with an organized, affordable, and reliable resource for repurposed art, craft, and school materials, and with a dynamic center for activities related to sustainability, art, craft, education, and material culture.

Free street parking is available outside the WasteShed on Kimball.


Art After Work is a series of hands-on artmaking workshops facilitated by Chicago-based artists. Every month, explore new inventive ways to use common, inexpensive, and salvaged materials to create your own unique work of art. Each workshop is designed for you to connect with your creativity, and each other!

Please contact Accessibility Coordinator, Dani Wieder, at dani@art.org with questions related to accessibility accommodations.

Your participation in an Intuit program constitutes implied consent to be photographed, and for those images to be utilized by Intuit for educational, fundraising, and marketing purposes. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let a staff member know and we’ll be happy to respect your wishes.


Art After Work is funded in part by the Alphawood Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Illinois Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations from Intuit members and supporters.