Rick Gutierrez Left-Handed Recital & Celebration

This is Rick's second iCreate recital. The guitar he earned for his first recital, July 30th 2010 was stolen. This event presented an adventurous challenge. He decided to embark on completing the iCreate program, but this time left handed.



Congratulations Rick and continue playing the sweet tunes that we all enjoy! Maybe put a GPS tracking device on this one? :)


( Rick playing "Only Blue Sky", right-handed)

Deanna Sauceda's Exhibit at OFFCenter

As many of you know, the "Away!" Mountains, Rivers & Canyons Exhibit which took place in January was a great success. What some of you may not have known is that one of our local news anchor, Deanna Sauceda, was a contributing artist. She attended the Drawing & Painting Workshops on Tuesdays and Thursdays and before she knew it, she had a lovely portfolio. In the above clip, Deanna Sauceda recaps on her experiences at OFFCenter and her artistic journey. Enjoy!

Birdhouses at Reginald Chavez Elementary

Thanks to a generous donation of several dozen gourds by Off Center employee Kelsi Sharp the latest project at Reginald Chavez Elementary was the construction of birdhouses made of gourds. Simply by drilling a small opening in the gourds, emptying the seeds from the inside, and attaching string to hang the gourds with to the top small bird houses were easily constructed. Students enjoyed painting their own designs on the outside of their gourds and were able to take them home to hang them up!

UNM Service Corp Outreach

On Friday April 6th Kelsi, Brandon, and Isaac, all UNM Service Corp members working here at Off Center, were asked to lead an art activity on self awareness at a UNM Service Corp meeting. In doing this they conducted an "exquisite corpse" activity splitting the UNM students into groups of three and having each student draw one section of the human body(head, torso, or legs) without their other members seeing what they were drawing. Students were supposed to illustrate what they saw in themselves onto the paper, in addition to drawing the bodies students wrote poems of self awareness in a similar fashion. After everyone was done groups presented the bodies they had drawn and read their groups poems aloud, the end results were very impressive and everyone had a great time!