Professional Collaborations

Juneteenth Festival and Jack Daniels 6 Foot Piece

LEANA collaborated with Juneteenth Festival in Denver and Jack Daniels Liqour to sponsor an African American migration inspired work of art to the city of Denver; live painted over two days at the Juneteenth Festival.

Ancestral Gold Rush

6 Feet by 4 feet Acrylic and Gold Ink on Canvas

This piece was to celebrate the community that was built in the coined area, “Harlem of the West”, where African Americans cultivated a community in Five Points of Denver with so much culture. Not only did LEANA create and paint the concept for this work of art, she also built and stretched the canvas locally. This piece can be viewed in Spangalang Brewery in Denver, Colorado!

Live Painting of Breast Cancer Inspired Donated Work of art

LEANA collaborated with the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the Wardian here in Denver, CO donating a piece to their silent auction that raised over $11,000 for woman fighting breast cancer! Not only was the painting donated but it was also live painted at the event for everyone to watch process, admire the piece, and ask questions with the artist about the work of art being auctioned.

SOUL PROPAGATION

18x24 inches acrylic and Gold foil on canvas

Breast Cancer piece highlighting how one going through this journey must learn to grow their soul in a new vessel after overcoming the disease. It speaks to the courage, strength, and resilience a woman has to be in their spirit during this evolution!

Teaching Visual Arts for Trio Upward Bound at MSU DENVER

A course taught at MSU Denver’s college summer program with TRIO Upward Bound for 9th through 12th graders. This course curriculum has been taught for the past two years and was completely designed by visual artist LEANA, as she leads another art course in Colorado. LEANA recently focused on abstract art creation building students confidence in creative problem solving, adaptability, knowledge of current self, and the simplistic use of color and shape to create art. This courses goal is to encourage students to take a journey within and discover their true passions within enjoying the human experience whilst learning fundamental skills for creative expression, drawing, and painting. Additionally, the class will dive into the large activism/healing theme that leads to deeper thinking of identity in community.

Art Education at Watershed School

Spirit of Creativity

LEANA was a co-teacher in this amazing creativity-focused, self discovery art course at Watershed School. This course focused on using multiple mediums of drawing and painting both inside and outside the classroom. Student’s creativity was guided and encouraged through class activities and literature. Students also used many wellness concepts such as mindfulness, connection with nature, and connection to senses through texture and sound to guide their creative concepts for this course. From spray painting, sound healing through lines and color, natural indigo dye, and African drumming students were exposed to several different genres of creativity and artistic expression.

Mixed Media Sculptures

LEANA created and taught curriculum for mixed media sculptures created from wood, plaster, acrylic paint, hot glue, stained glass, buttons, plastic flowers, hammers, etc. This course combined abstract three dimensional art and wellness through the creation of a mixed media art piece visually displaying the change of a negative emotion to a positive one from positive coping. This was a very abstract concept that allowed for immense creative freedom that can be either liberating or intimidating. Students were challenged in their understanding of their emotions, how they feel, and how to shift them in a positive direction. With guidance students thrived and were able to make intentional creative artistic choices in the colors, lines, movement, shape, and additional three dimensional pieces of materials.

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