27-Sep-06	Customized Workshops I am always creating new performances, workshops and residencies based on the interests of my clients. I am a painter, sculptor, illustrator, writer and multimedia designer. I believe that anybody can learn the skills and tricks to complete a work of art, and that artists are not “gifted” individuals among us, but regular people with ...
27-Sep-06	The Vault of Secret Dreams The process of building and casting this three-dimensional mosaic and cement sculpture itself is a mathematical and engineering challenge to students. This unique experience will...
27-Sep-06	The Shades of Diversity (Mural) This multimedia project uses traditional collage techniques as an awareness and self-discovery tool of individual roots and classroom diversity and richness. The paper tiles designs of this intercultural quilt will ...
27-Sep-06	Dinosaur Fables This workshop is an interactive combination of storytelling and real-time illustration that will keep students laughing and learning from the beginning to end. Dinosaur Fables will help to explain the
27-Sep-06	The Tree of Life The Tree of Life is a hands-on clay project based on a Mexican folk-art form. The program not only reinforces students’ understanding of nature and the importance of
27-Sep-06	Written and Illustrated by This dynamic program starts with a recorded storytelling circle to create a collective story, followed up by basic traditional and ...
27-Sep-06	Artist at Work This is very flexible and customizable program that illustrates the process of creating a piece of art from easel painting to murals.

Artistc and Educational Experience

Augusto C. Bordelois (Havana, Cuba, 1969) graduated from the University of Havana with a major in English Language and Literature. He has also studied sculpture, ceramics, costume design for theatre and cinema, classical drawing and painting. He was the founder and main teacher of the "Children’s Workshop," at 23 & 12 Art Center in Havana; and also the co-founder of the freelance multimedia company "2 Pasos."

In addition to his studio paintings, Mr. Bordelois has designed costumes and sets for theaters and floats at different carnivals in Cuba and in Cleveland. He has painted and/or directed several large-scale projects and pieces of public art such as “The Mural of the Americas, a Tribute to Roberto Ocasio” currently installed at CSU School of Music and “Flying Over You”, a multimedia mural, which will be installed at Concourse D at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. He has been a featured artist for the last four years during the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Chalk Festival, where he has been commissioned to do large-scale chalk murals.

He has worked closely with landscape architects, artists and communities in the design of outdoor classrooms, gardens, public places, and public art. He also coordinated several community art programs.

Mr. Bordelois is also a teaching artist and member of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio  Ohio Arts Council. and founding member of Southwest 7 Arts -  a fine art and consulting services company, currently managing The Little Red Schoolhouse Center for the Fine Arts, Berea, Ohio