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Up Next: MOSAIC Mural Commission with Kat Cadena
Contemporary at Blue Star’s MOSAIC Student Artist program is recruiting new students for the completion of a large-scale mural commission. Students enrolled in the session will assist artist Kat Cadena and gain real world experience in creating a public mural. This session of MOSAIC will meet twice weekly on Fridays and Saturdays except for the First Friday of the month and winter break.
Students participating in the MOSAIC Mural Commission session that meet attendance requirements will receive a $200 stipend.
MOSAIC Session Schedule
November 30, 2024– January 18, 2025
No Class
First Friday, December 6, 2024
December 20, 2024 – January 3, 2025
Application & Eligibility
Applications are now closed.
About Kat Cadena
Kat Cadena is a multimedia artist, celebrated muralist, and independent illustrator. She was raised by multiple generations of strong, proud, and fierce mestiza women in San Antonio, Texas. Cadena’s bright pink portraits and murals depict unflinchingly emotional subjects, most often, women. Surrounded by monumental, flowing medicinal herbs and flowers, her works are a nod to a simultaneous keeping of tradition and an intentional breaking of cycles.
MOSAIC Student Artist Program
The Contemporary at Blue Star’s MOSAIC Student Artist Program is open to high school students who are interested in developing their professional artistic skills and careers in the arts. The after-school program is a combination of studio practice and exposure to the business side of art and arts administration. An extension of the Contemporary’s educational programs, we are committed to giving MOSAIC students free access to quality arts education, encouraging high standards of achievement, and fostering excellence and leadership.
MOSAIC Visiting Artists mentor students in a diverse range of art mediums in an intensive, independent study format. The MOSAIC Student Art Gallery features student exhibitions, drawing hundreds of visitors and adds to San Antonio’s vibrant and rich visual culture. Students participate in the Contemporary’s programs and have access to visiting artists.
100% of MOSAIC’s students have graduated high school and our concentration on college readiness prepares them for careers in the arts, sharing in San Antonio’s cultural economy and continuing the Contemporary’s mission to inspire the creative genius in us all by nurturing artists through contemporary art.
