2024 Artist: Luis Sotero

As Arts Marathon artists we will send a different example of our creative process and work to everyone who sponsors us, five days per week during April. We invite our friends, family, colleagues and anyone else who cares about art and wants to support Bridge to Rutland’s important work to sponsor us. Together we will help welcome new Americans who, in turn, will add immeasurably to our communities.

Luis‘s Arts Marathon Goal

I will share my oil paintings.

Luis‘s Background

comencé a dibujar en un centro de detención donde estuve 1 año solo por ser migrante en 2015 ahora quiero dar a conocer la historia de miles de migrantes que como yo caminamos el desierto ullendo de la violencia .
mis obras cuentan una cruda realidad que muchos no quieren ver o ignoran y espero Aser conciencia en las personas de lo complejo que es ser migrante.

hoy día a 7 años de haber sido deportado me enorgullese ser voluntario enseñando a los migrantes el como expresar su sentir con la pintura ademas que mis obras están viajando en exposiciones en usa.

Translation:
I began to draw in a detention center where I was for a year, only because I was a migrant in 2015. Now I want to let people know the story of thousands of migrants like me who walked through the desert escaping from violence. My works tell the story in raw realism that many don't want to see, or that they ignore, and I hope to raise awareness in people about the complexity that is being a migrant. Today, seven years after being deported, I am proud to be a volunteer teaching migrants how to express their feelings through painting. Also, my works are traveling in expositions in the USA.

Art Samples