Cultural Exploration [6 weeks]

Cultural Exploration is a unique class series by POT that encompasses our mission to preserve and celebrate culture through clay. This 6-week series at POT Gardens in Mid-City is taught by a new teaching artist each session, who brings their own cultural practice to the series. 

Lizbeth Navarro will teach the January-February series. With Liz's guidance and unique cultural background students will learn surface decoration techniques and incorporate them into one larger piece that explores a personal or cultural narrative. Students will be invited to interpret and express their own culture or personal narratives in various ways.

Liz discovered ceramics at East LA Community College and later graduated from CSULB with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Ceramics. After graduating from college in 2013, Liz received DACA- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Under DACA, she's been able to serve her community as an arts educator at many organizations across Los Angeles.

Through art and an inclusive teaching practice, Liz aims to share art’s ability to form community engagement, collaboration and to uplift those that engage with it, regardless of their circumstances. Her mission as an artist and an educator is to cultivate a culture of positiveness, inclusion, acceptance, exploration and empower youth through the arts.

This is a level 2 series. This series is for ages 16+ with basic handbuilding experience, or anyone who has at least taken Handbuilding 1 with us.