Beginning this year in the month of February, Voices on the Border has sponsored a drawing and painting class for some 20 youth that are direct members of or family members of the Pastoral Team. For three months, we have passed almost every Saturday afternoon at the San Luis Templo learning both theory and practice [...]

The San Luis drawing and painting classes are held every Tuesday and Thursday within the FSM office space. A consistent group of 15 students (ages 12-18) come for the two hour session. Last week we worked on portraits of our neighbors. This Tuesday we sketched a countryside that we will be painting next week. Today [...]

This first week of April we began painting the San Luis Templo mural.  Its’ design is to be based on the cultural identity, the historical memory, and the struggles that Comunidad Segundo Montes has overcome and continues to experience. Four painters (Fredy, Alberto, Alejandra, and Rachel) joined us from San Salvador to work on the [...]

On February 18 I facilitated the first painting-drawing class with some 18 youth from my neighborhood of San Luis II. Participation has been good; the second class had some 22 participants; the third class had 15 students. The classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday and its content will vary from theoretical and   [...]

            For more than a year our dream has been to paint a mural on the front wall of the church in San Luis. We are inching along and are in the process of the following steps:   -We are taking a drawing and painting class facilitated by a local [...]

This past month of January we began a series of paint workshops with a local painter, Erick Vargas, who lives in Gotera, which is the departmental head of Morazán. Don Erick is providing a series of 12 painting classes that are held on consecutive Saturdays beginning at midday and ending at 5pm. There are a [...]

Over a period of several weeks, I worked with the youth of La Planta to design, draw, and paint one of the bus stops in La Planta, municipality of Jocoaitique. We ventured to draw our natural surroundings of pine trees and the national bird of El Salvador, the Torogoz. Painting bus stops is more than [...]

Every year the community of Aguacatl, Cantón El Volcancillo, in the municipality of Jocoaitique organizes a commemorative vigil in honor of the heroes and martyrs of Aguacatl that died during the war. In addition to being a unique demonstration of unity and solidarity among those native to northern Morazán, the all-day activity also includes artistic [...]

The neighborhood of St. Teresita and I are collaborating to design and paint a mural. I like to call it the ‘mobile mural’ because it will be executed on a canvas with loopholes from which it will hang on walls or from trees. The ‘mobile mural’ also looks forward to appearances at marches and community [...]

The campaign of painting bus stops continues. The first casetawe painted with community members was right in my neighborhood of San Luis II. This was in April 2011. After San Luis II, we moved to a neighboring community of El Redondel, Hatos. This past weekend we painted the third caseta of La Guadalupe. The painting [...]