Family Art Appreciation Workshop

Want to instill an appreciation for visual arts in your kids? Love art but not sure how to talk about it? Interested in exploring new creative opportunities as a family? Join artist and educator Cándida González and artist and designer Bayou Bay for a free family workshop on exploring art!

This workshop will take place at 6 pm on Thursday, March 19th at the Lanesboro Community Center in the dining room (downstairs).

Using Bayou’s art as inspiration, Cándida and Bayou will share five questions that invite art appreciators of all ages to dig deeper, make connections, and share about their experiences.

This interactive workshop is based on on the critical response protocol for analyzing art, a teaching tool that invites parents and children to connect to art together.

Participants are encouraged to register attend for free at the link on this page. Registration is not required, however it helps allow us to prepare to welcome you.

About the Artists:

Cándida González (they/them) is a mixed Puerto Rican multimedia artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They most often work in temporary altar installations using found objects, words, digital collage, photography and elements of the natural world. Their projects explore how the manipulation of basic elements into different configurations produce distinct energies/spells. They approach their work by centering at the intersection of art, activism, healing and personal/community empowerment. They are deeply invested in the concept of using art and community design as tools to wage love and healing and prioritize participatory installations. González has shown installation work at Public Functionary, Lanesboro Arts, Indigenous Roots Cultural Art Center, Franconia Sculpture Park and CLUES as well as managed community engagement for various public art projects nationwide.

Bayou Bay (he/stardust pronouns) is a Twin Cities based mixed-media artist and designer born in St. Paul on the occupied lands of the Dakota & Anishinaabe peoples. His work embodies themes of nature from the micro to the cosmic, black and collective liberation, healing trauma, time, portals, geometry, symbols, setting intentions for affirmations, asking questions, and identity exploration. Water is an especially strong theme in Bayou’s work. bayouconstellation.com

Bayou Bay and Cándida González are artists-in-residence through the 2025/26 round of the BIPOC Artist Residency program. This personally tailored residency program offers the opportunity for support and open access to Lanesboro Arts and Lanesboro Area, facilities, personnel, and natural environment. Learn more at https://lanesboroarts.org/bipoc-artist-residency/

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.