Children's Art Center

This is a project mainly funded by Project Gettysburg-León although PML has supported the students in the form of delegation visits, painting purchases, auction purchases and smaller contributions. This is a school of 100 students who meet with their art teacher, Lorenzo Lopez Lopez, every Saturday. The beginning level students meet in the mornings while the advanced students meet in the afternoon. Lorenzo is assisted by a group of 10 graduates of the Children's Art school. PGL supplies a small stipend for Lorenzo and for the materials they need throughout the year. PGL also finances 2 field trips each year, one for each of the class levels. The purpose of these trips is to give the students the opportunity to experience some creative inspiration by providing them a new vista or new experience that we hope will help them expand their ideas of what is possible in their art as well as in their own hopes and expectations. This objective is conscientiously carried through in the visits that the school receives from delegations. This year, PGL's service learning delegation's objective was to share with Lorenzo and the art graduates new techniques for creative dynamism in their classes with the art students. In return, Lorenzo and the art students shared with the delegates the technique of Primitivist painting and showed the delegates the historic, folkloric destinations within León that are a main subject of their art.