Sabados en Familia
Welcome to the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESBMACC) Sábados en Familia Virtual! Sabados en Familia is a great opportunity to engage in Latinx culture through the arts, while using your creative imagination to create original pieces. You can access all of our other digital programs at MACCDIGITAL.
Arts activities will be streamed live on select Saturdays on the MACC Facebook.
Our next live Sabados en Familia Virtual is on Saturday 22, 2022 from 11am - 12:30pm on Facebook!
Sabados en Familia Virtual is great for the whole family, so please join us for a fun and safe weekend!
Below you will find the lesson plans and additional resources for the following lesson plans:
Coloring Book and Gallery Tour
by instructor Cassie Smith
Hear the story of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, meet some of the instructors, and create an art work that could go up on the walls of the ESB-MACC. Art activity is for kids aged 5-12, in this video that was created for Stay Creative, the City of Austin Parks & Coloring Book and Gallery Tour: Students will learn about the history of the MACC and consider what kind of art they would put on the gallery walls.
The free book, "An Empowered Village and Its Citizens" is a coloring and activity book that tells of the history of the ESB-MACC and encourages children to envision what they would like to see take place at the Center. You can pick up a printed copy of this coloring book at the MACC during business hours (austintexas.gov/esbmacc) and/or print your own copy at home!
View/ Print the Coloring Book (PDF)!
Watch this Live Reading of the coloring book!
Visit the Coloring Book Lesson page!
Take a Virtual Tour of the MACC!
Tejano Music History
by instructor Elaine Esparza
Students will learn the history of Tejano music such as its connection to German folk music (eg. the use of an accordion), and the differences within the genre of Tejano music amongst artists such as Flaco Jiménez and Selena Quintanilla.
Watch the Video!
Download the Lesson Plan!
Nature Portraits
by instructor Arthur Moreno
Arthur Moreno, bilingual teacher, shows us how to create a self-portrait and teaches us about the history of self-portraiture in Mexico.
Participants will learn the importance of self-portraits, and while analyzing portraits of Latinx historical and contemporary figures. Participants will also use what they have learned to create portraits of themselves.
View/ Print the Lesson Plan!
Watch the Instructional Video!