Café Con Arte: Process: Hecho a Mano

Tour our exhibit, Process: Hecho a Mano by Whitney Saldagdo, all while enjoying hot coffee and fresh churros! Let our Managing Artistic Director, Jacobo Lovo, guide you on a gallery tour and discussion surrounding our exhibit, Hecho a Mano: Process by Whitney Salgado. This tour will be given in English and Spanish. Café con Arte takes place in our Latino Arts Gallery. Registration is $5. *Please note all sales are final. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ About the Exhibit Whitney Salgado is a Latine digital painter and freelance illustrator. A graduate from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design with a focus on Illustration and a minor in Communication Design, they have called Milwaukee their home for over a decade. While Salgado prefers working digitally, they also often work with acrylic paint, ink and other traditional mediums. Their style has been heavily influenced by Art Nouveau, pop art, and those childhood mornings watching anime before school. Mental health, emotions, and identity are recurring themes in their work and they focus on creating work that is purposely colorful and inviting, to help facilitate conversations about difficult topic.