Artist Book Workshop with Maria De Los Angeles In-Person
Join us for a workshop led by Artist-in-Residence Maria de Los Angeles and create your own artist book combining drawing and text. In advance, write or select a short poem or short story to illustrate. Participants are asked to bring scissors and collage materials (magazines, etc.). Paper and glue will be provided.
Registration requested, through drop-ins will be welcome as room allows. The workshop will be held over three hours, and participants can expect to spend approximately one hour making their book. Come at 2pm, 3pm, or 4pm as your schedule allows! Open to all ages.
- Date:
- Friday, January 2, 2026
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 5:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Idaho Room
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- All Ages
- Categories:
- Classes & Discussions
Maria De Los Angeles is a Mexican-born, American artist who addresses migration, belonging, and identity through her drawing, painting, printmaking, and wearable sculptures. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2015), a BFA from Pratt Institute (2013), and an Associate Degree from Santa Rosa Junior College (2010). Maria was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize by the Yale School of Art in 2015 and the William Aguilar Cultural Award in 2023, by the AHHE American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. for her artwork and her role within her communities.
She has been an Artist in Residence at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, MASS MOCA, El Museo del Barrio, LACMA, Monira Foundation, and Schneider Museum of Art within Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University. Solo exhibitions at Schneider Museum of Art (2018 & 2019), the Museum of Sonoma County (2019), and Goggleworks (2022). Group exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (2019), LACMA (2019), Self Help Graphics (2019), and the San Diego Mesa College (2022), Mission College (2025). Her artwork was on view in We the People: The Radical Notions of Democracy at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Public murals include Glen Ellen, California (2021), Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (2022), Santa Rosa Junior College (2023), the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts 2023) and the Harmon Guest House (2024). Her artwork is in the permanent collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Sonoma County, the Green Family Art Foundation, the Marcus Collection, San Diego Mesa College, Smith College, and the Jack Leissring Studio.
Maria is currently a Critic and Assistant Director of Graduate Studies for the Painting and Printmaking Program at the Yale School of Art. Her work was recently on view at the Sun Valley Museum of Art (2025), and in 2026 at the Fairfield University Art Museum, CT, among others. De Los Angeles lives and maintains a studio in Jersey City. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artnet, New York Magazine, HelloGiggles, and The Observer.