Right Click: Interactive art event inspires students

Oct 15, 2015

Local artist Laura Lopez Cano hosted and provided art-driven activities at HCC Campuses to encourage students to visualize goals and values in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month. She led students, faculty and staff, who decided to use the session as a lunch break, to trace body parts and label them with certain passions and ambitions.

“Today is all about fun and discovering and realizing our goals and direction,” Lopez Cano said. “Sometimes we have it all in our head, but we don’t plan it out. So this is kind of a road map using a fun method." 

She asked the day’s participants to come up with descriptions or goals based on five guidelines: boundaries, commitment, power, desires and the heart. These starting points were assigned to a body part, and the goals or self-descriptions decorated that body part in an array of colors. The exercise asked students to evaluate themselves.

 Lopez Cano also displayed one of her finished art collections. The pieces were vibrant and rich with her Hispanic influence and culture.

“I am Mexican American,” Lopez Cano said. “I travel across the country for clients, but I like to do this, because it’s about preservation of culture…It’s about keeping traditions alive and learning traditions and teaching traditions to others. We interact with so many other cultures. It’s about sharing.”