San Pancho’s Entreamigos Celebrates Art and Creative Learning Entreamigos
March 4, 2022

Art education in all its forms is an important pillar of Entreamigos. Access to art classes allows the children of our community to explore the boundaries of their imagination, develop creative thinking abilities and enriches our multicultural community.

This month Entreamigos celebrated our 15th Annual Children's Art Festival. This event marked the culmination of of 8 weeks of intensive workshops with techniques such as: paper making, acrylic painting, paper mache, jewelry making, embroidery, photography, collage, theater, dance, illustration, clay, and sewing with ironed plastic bags.

Fourteen volunteer artists worked with a total of 76 children of San Pancho to create the works featured in the exhibit. Congratulations to all the young artists who presented their works in the exhibit! And a huge thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make this festival possible.

Spotlight on Our Featured Young Artist



This year we are so proud to announce Jenifer Mendoza as the featured young artist from our Art Festival. Jenifer is 15 years old and has participated in the festival for the past 10 years. Through her participation, she has developed a love for painting and her dream is to become a professional artist and see her works in a gallery.

This year marked a huge step towards that dream. At the festival she showed 5 pieces, created under the mentorship of Freida Fredenhagen, Entreamigos' Creative Director. These pieces were sold at our event and all the funds from her work go directly to Jenifer to support her continued art education.

Additionally, at the event, Jenifer was approached by another mentor and famous artist, Evelyne Boren, who gave her a personal invitation to her 50th Annual art show in Puerto Vallarta the following week. At Evelyne's show, Jenifer was introduced to some of Vallarta's top curators who ensured her that they would love to see her work in their galleries in the future.

Congratulations, Jenifer! We're so proud of all your hard work!



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