Social history mural at the HIVE community center in Glenwood, an amazing traditionally working class, black and now brown neighborhood in Greensboro. Mural designed and painted by Los Artistas GSO 2009: Joel & Donnie Freeman, Juan Pablo y Andres Perez, Nayleny Banda, Alex Amaya, Jonathan Lopez y Jennifer Noyola

A home by Nayleni

LOS ARTISTAS Los Artistas began as an honor's thesis and social entrepreneur grant, and a thirst to learn more about the aesthetics and experiences of first-generation children of Latin American immigrants to North Carolina. The students' unbelievable creativity led me to seek community art education in Mexico. I am indebted to the country. I think the US has great things to learn from los mexicanos. I teach place-making in art to aid transmigrant and bicultural youth reject, explore, invent and synthesize identities. Los Artistas happened from 2004-2007 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and 2007-2010 in Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. Los Artistas is a Friday night social hour celebrating pre-columbian, contemporary latin american, chicano and western visual arts. The student work is raw, colorful, fresh and a testimony to their bravery and resilience in balancing two languages and creating their own world view. Our Article in GoTriad, part of the News and Record! Today Los Artistas students are illustrating Lo Que Nos Susurra el Viento, a book of Aztec wisdom by Xokonoschtletl, which will be published in English and sold this winter to raise money to send to Xoko's home state of Tabasco, Mexico, a place recently flooded and left without transportation, adequate medicine, and housing.