Winter/Spring 2012 Exhibitions
The La Casita Cultural Center Gallery is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and is free and open to the public. Below is information about the Spring 2012 exhibitions.
The Photographer as a Child: Memories From Guatemala
Featuring the work of award-winning photographer Efren Lopez January 27 to May 10, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 27, 5:30 to 8 p.m. La Casita Cultural Center Gallery Born in Guatemala, Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse’s Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona. The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. “My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966,” Lopez says. “It’s a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America.” Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.
Teen Photography Exhibition
The exhibition will feature the work of teens who participated in a four-week photography workshop presented through the Ford Driving Dreams program. The workshop was informed by Efren Lopez's The Photographer as a Child: Memories from Guatemala exhibition.
