Live Art Demonstration: Vejigante Masks with Juan Roman Jr.

Primary tabs

Program Type:

Art / Craft

Age Group:

Elementary, Teens, Adults
Please note you are looking at an event that has already happened.

Program Description

Event Details

Stop by the library cafe to see a live demonstration as a local artist creates a vejigante, a colorful mask worn in Puerto Rican festival celebrations. Artist Juan M. Roman, Jr., born in Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago, creates traditional and contemporary-style vejigantes from paper mache to link Puerto Rican heritage with the 21st century.

Hispanic Heritage Month Program

 

 

Disclaimer(s)

No signup required

No signup required.