To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month this May with pride and visibility, my storefront studio space located in the Searstown Plaza in Fort Lauderdale, FL will be open for a pop-up live screen printing event that focuses on raising awareness about the role the arts play in the therapeutic process.
Date: Saturday May 28 / 3:00pm - 8:00pm Curators talk with Yuki Tavera begins at 3pm Event is free and open to the public
Location: Tina La Porta Studio Address: 907 N. Federal HighwayFort Lauderdale, FL 33304
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month this May with pride and visibility, Tina La Porta's storefront studio space located in the Searstown Plaza in Fort Lauderdale, FL will be open for a pop-up live screen printing event that focuses on raising awareness about the role the arts play in the therapeutic process.
Images from her Side Effects and Un/covering series of work are screen printed onto donated t-shirts. Guests at the event can either bring their own t-shirt or pick from a clothing rack of pre-made shirts recycled into artistic street wear.
Inside the storefront, she has collaborated with Soundwave Art to interconnect her eight-panel visual collage work Un/covering with the eight soundtracks from her series Hearing Voices. The app can be downloaded free onto a cellphone to create an interactive experience on a mobile device.
Screenings of Art in Therapy Panel Discussion - The Therapeutic Qualities of Art in the Healing Process (Pompano Beach Cultural Center) and Art Roundtable: Side Effects (NSU Art Museum) will be on view.
For a $250 donation you can select a unique screen print on wallpaper from her flat files. Each have a word or an image screen printed onto wallpaper recycled from donated sample books.
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Made possible with the support from the Broward County Cultural Division, The Puffin Foundation and Individual donors