First Friday at Blue Star Contemporary offers a chance for the public to join in on a cosmic fashion project by artist Luis Valderas.
, a First Friday event by one participating artist provides anyone a chance to strut down the catwalk.has patiently awaited the chance to hold his Cosmic Couture Open Call that invites anyone to dress up in cosmically-inspired costumery and join in on his longstanding Project:MASA series of exhibitions.was initially slated to open in the summer of 2020 at Centro de Artes, but was first postponed during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, then moved to Blue Star Contemporary.
The very first Project:MASA show opened at Gallista Gallery in 2005 with a blessing of the four corners of the universe by a group of Aztec dancers, Valderas said. “It’s a connection to the cosmic aspects of our culture,” including seasonal awareness of the stars for agriculture, and Aztec mythologies.
Similar to the Afrofuturist movement of the late 1990s, Project:MASA offers a Latino vision of an inclusive future. A play on the word “masa,” a corn flour dough used in many Latin American dishes, the project’s playful acronym stands for MeChicano Alliance of Space Artists. The fifth Project MASA installment, focused on Chicana feminism, is running concurrently at Centro Cultural Aztlan as
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