Round I Projects
PROJECT
IMPERIAL VALLEY ARTS AND HEALTH
IMPERIAL VALLEY ARTS AND HEALTH campaign uses the visual arts as a means of communication and expression to improve the health, emotional, and social well-being of the Imperial Valley community after the pandemic. The artist resides in one of the places with the most cases of COVID-19 per capita, California. Calexico does not have a hospital, so vulnerable groups such as seniors and people with disabilities will participate and engage in unique art workshops, collective murals, and art exhibitions. The workshops will take place in a pleasant environment of respect to positively impact the participants in their personal and social development, which translates into improved quality of life and mental health. The campaign aims to generate transformation through artistic activities that use painting to allow specific groups in the community to benefit from creating art.
LEARN ABOUT THE ARTIST + CULTURAL PRACTITIONERS
Jose "Eduardo Kintero" Quintero
Jose Eduardo Quintero is an artist who has worked in many mediums, including large-format metal and ceramic sculpture, curatorship and museography of exhibitions, development, and dissemination of visual arts programs, and art workshops helping different groups of people from adults to children with special needs. He's worked for the Autonomous University of Baja California, the Baja California Government, Casa de Cultura Mexicali, and the City of Calexico Recreation Department, among other places, focusing on murals, exhibits, cultural programs, art activities in public spaces.