Devenir Workshops

Art workshops for youth exploring storytelling, play, and material transformation through hands-on making with reclaimed materials.

Devenir Workshops explore becoming through shared acts of making. Working with reclaimed materials, participants develop sculptural forms and collaborative environments while engaging imagination, experimentation, and collective process.

The workshops invite participants to transform discarded materials into new forms, cultivating attention to material, space, and creative possibility.

Shared acts of making

Workshop Formats

Each workshop explores storytelling, material transformation, and collaborative making through a distinct creative process.

  • Participants select a favorite character, scene, or story and translate it into a life-size sculptural form using reclaimed cardboard and found materials.

    The figures are worn, staged, photographed, and sometimes presented through temporary exhibitions or collaborative installations.

    The workshops encourage storytelling, collaboration, and imaginative problem-solving through hands-on making.

  • Hands-on sculpture workshops using reclaimed materials such as cardboard, flower nets, packaging materials, and production scraps. Participants cut, layer, wrap, build, and assemble forms while experimenting with shape, structure, and composition.

    The workshops encourage observation, problem-solving, and creative exploration through the process of making.

  • Hands-on collage workshops using reclaimed newspapers, magazines, books, labels, and paper ephemera. Participants layer, cut, combine, and rearrange materials to create new images, compositions, and visual narratives.

    The workshops encourage observation, experimentation, and intuitive image-making.

What to Expect

  • The workshops emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and openness to unexpected outcomes. Participants are encouraged to work iteratively, remain curious through difficulty, and allow ideas to evolve through making.

    Mistakes are approached as part of the creative process rather than something to avoid.

  • Available formats include:

    • Single-day workshops
    • Multi-day workshop series
    • School and institutional collaborations
    • Private group workshops

    Workshops can be developed for schools, museums, libraries, youth organizations, and community spaces.

  • Carolina Fontoura Alzaga is an artist whose long-term sculptural practice explores transformation through reclaimed materials, light, and large-scale form. Through Facaro studio, she has developed internationally commissioned lighting sculptures alongside participatory workshops and material-based practices centered on creative reuse, experimentation, and collective making.

    Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally and featured in publications including American Craft and the Los Angeles Times.

Bring a workshop to your community!

Devenir Workshops are developed in dialogue with schools, museums, libraries, youth organizations, and community spaces.

For workshop inquiries or institutional collaborations, please get in touch.