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Participant Biographies and Project Descriptions

Enrica Marshall
A professional artist specializing in printmaking, Enrica earned a scholarship to study Fine Arts and holds a MA in Graphic Arts from UCLA. She has exhibited her serigraphs, linocuts, etchings and other work throughout Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego since the early 1970s. Enrica has taught printmaking workshops to inner city children residing in Los Angeles, art classes to high school students and adults while living in Tanzania, and since its inception, has worked with visitors doing hands-on printmaking at the Laguna Arts Festival. As an artist and printmaker Enrica believes in always challenging herself in difference processes and subject matter within the printmaking field. This belief and the potential for visual, physical, and intellectual gratification available in printmaking is what Enrica hopes can be part of every child’s development and education.

Enrica is teaching hands-on printmaking to youth ranging in age from eight to eighteen at CREER, Comunidad y Familia. CREER is a grassroots nonprofit community organization founded within, and serving, the densely populated Mexican/Latino area of San Juan Capistrano near the downtown soccer field. Enrica’s classes for the CREER youth are held in a location close to their homes. These printmaking classes fill a great need for Mexican/Latino youth in San Juan Capistrano, not only for art but also as a positive outlet and after school activity. Enrica looks forward to this project and how as the student’s interest and focus evolves so will the complexity of their artmaking. “One of my jobs as an artist and teacher is to enable the students to see art as an integral part of their lives, to stimulate their creative abilities for self-growth, and to hopefully encourage a lifelong interest in the arts.”