LGBTQ+ seniors age 65+ living in Los Angeles, Pasadena/Altadena, and San Gabriel Valley are invited to join The Constellataon Project! Kate Muehlemann Cataldo, a Los Angeles-based artist will make visits to you at home for 4 weeks. The visits will be 60-90 minutes, once weekly. In this time, Kate will do a legacy project with you, audio recording your answers to life review questions each week. She will also paint your portrait, by taking your photograph for reference.

Your audio recorded stories will be shared with LGBTQ+ youth art group(s) to inspire artworks based on parts of your story that give them hope and inspiration for their own future.

When:

Visits for the next round of participants will take place between July 1st, 2024 through April 30, 2025. Kate will audio record your stories and take your photograph you for a portrait painting during this time.

You will also be invited any exhibitions that include your portrait, audio recorded stories, and youth artwork inspired by them.

Participants ages 13-19 will create their own artwork inspired by stories and portraits of local elders. The artworks will be displayed at an exhibition along with the artist’s painted portraits of the elder and the audio recorded stories.

In the workshops led by the artist, students will listen to audio recordings of the elders stories and create their own art pieces based on what inspired them from the stories. These workshops will take place in Pasadena, CA and on Zoom.

The workshops are 2 hours 30 minutes in length, allowing 30 minutes to listen to stories, and 1 hr 30 min to make a painting. Worksheets are provided to help plan ideas for art as the participant listens. Kate and another teaching artist are available to assist with ideas and techniques. No art experience necessary!