Join us Wednesday July 13th for a Sip & Paint with Shervin Olvid at Urban Theater as we fundraise for our second year of "De Paseo con La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón"!

"De Paseo" was launched in 2021 as a two week long series of of live streamed workshops led by Director and Founder Ivelisse Diaz along with  local mayores, maestros, and artisans of bomba from Guayama, Mayagüez, Santurce, and Loíza, culminating with a live concert performance from Puerto Rico’s leading talents. This August we are returning in person along with sixteen students of La Escuelita who will be traveling to the island for eight days of intensive workshops. Each workshop will be livestreamed to ensure that all of our community has access to the knowledge and space.

Instructor: Sherwin Ovid

Sherwin Ovid is an interdisciplinary artist born in Trinidad that received a BFA from the School Art Institute of Chicago. He was a Lincoln Fellow in 2013 at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he received his Master’s ofFine Art. He currently teaches as an Adjunct professor at Oakton Community College, University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University. Ovid has exhibited at 6018 North, Randy Alexander Gallery, Goldfinch Projects, Gallery 400, University of Wisconsin, Julius Caesar, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, Heaven Gallery, Haitian American Museum of Chicago and Iceberg Projects in Evanston. He was published in New American Painters in 2016 as a noteworthy feature and listed as one of New City Magazine’s breakout artist. Ovid maintains a multifaceted approach to sustaining engaging work both inside and outside of a studio practice. His work often examines the boundaries of abstraction and figuration filtered through a personal history of migration and as a resident of Chicago.