During the summer, the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space has hosted a series of artist-led workshops with the intent of providing our local students and teachers an opportunity to learn about different approaches to the creation and presentation of contemporary art.

For Monochromatic Sculpture and Spatial Installation, students, along with Miami-based artist Cara Despain, created a site-specific installation inside the project room at the collection. Limited to a monochromatic palette, participants chose and dipped found objects in black paint, created textures using black fabric, cellophane, paper, and different paint finishes to produce a variety of sculptural compositions that alter the existing space.