Recipient of the Rex Foundation's 1999
JERRY GARCIA AWARD
Established in memory of Grateful Dead guitarist and founding Rex board member Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), this award is designed to honor and support individuals and groups that work to encourage creativity in young people.
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people. The MCCLA makes the arts accessible as an essential element to community development and well being. A variety of Youth Programs are offered which include the following:
Youth Initiative Program – offers free, ongoing classes to teens in printmaking, computer graphics, and theater. The youth in this four-day-a-week program learn independent art skills and also create ensemble projects tying into the Center's Cultural Calendar. Art training centers around social and political satire, and themes pertinent to youth.
Multicultural Art Education Summer School Program – Mas School – offers an eight week, five day-per-week program. The program runs from 10 am to 3 pm and serves over 100 youth each summer. Classes include: painting, hip hop, modern dance, comic book drawing, mural painting, improvisational theater, capoeira, indigenous music, choir, computer art and silk-screening.
Sabado Infantil Program – offers free activities to young children three days a week including free cinema, and classes in painting, puppet-making & theater, and capoeira.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110 · 415/821-1155
missionculturalcenter.org
