The embroidery workshop was particularly popular with adult women of the village. The workshop was a way to reintroduce hand-crafts, skills that have been lost in many regions due in large part to El Salvador’s 12 year civil war. Drawing on the mutual support of participants and styles, the exchange of skills was very exciting and essential to workshop chemistry. The majority of the embroidery reflected local issues, expressed on clothing, mantles, and handkerchiefs.

The artesania workshop focused on pre-school age children, providing creative stimulation as an alternative to idle time or helping their families with work. Basic English vocabulary and songs helped accustom students to hearing and pronouncing English, while art and crafts projects encouraged their nascent artistic abilities.

Mosaic was well-suited to the project in its flexibity to whatever materials are at hand. The workshop focused on the sculptural aspect of the visual arts and on developing a sense of composition of color, yet in very concrete and permanent process.

An English workshop was developed to address the large number of people immigrating to the United States, the need for local English tutors, and the growth of Bilingual careers. With children and adult workshops helped with pronunciation and grammar, LACAP hoped to strengthen job opportunities and extend English exposure for public school student through tutorials.

As a tactile, storytelling medium, puppetry was an ideal subject for a workshop to engage children on the importance of traditional oral folklore in an exciting and accessible manner. Members of performance group ImaginationExplosion joined LACAP for this workshop, which culminated in a marionette puppet show involving all participants in the performance and creation of sets and puppets.

The goal of this workshop was to demystify the technical barrier that many people feel exists between them and photography. Participants then made their own pinhole cameras with found containers and produced photographs. experiencing first-hand the simple photographic process. The workshop then moved on to light and composition to develop the art of photography.

Woodcut’s strong and influential history in Latin America made it easy to choose as the medium for the printmaking workshops. The ability to mass-produce images made this workshop very popular among the youth as a way to express themselves and share their creations with family and friends.

The beginning of this core workshop was to begin to refine participants’ raw talents in various painting and drawing techniques. Two critical objectives were to provide an opportunity for individual and artistic expression and to enable dialogue on and acknowledgement of such artistic talent in a region sorely in need of revived cultural development.

Having strengthened their artistic talents during painting and drawing workshops, local Salvadoran students were able to put their disciplines into practice in this workshop. A mural depicting the Salvadoran countryside and its people was painted along the side of LACAP cultural center located in the center of the village of El Polvo.