Working Classroom Inc

Specialties

Working Classroom is a multi-​ethnic and diverse community of students and professional artists, actors and writers with a conscious commitment to supporting new and diverse voices and visions in the ARTS.

We contribute to a more nuanced understanding of American identity by training aspiring artists and actors from historically ignored communities and creating art and theatre by, for and about these communities.

We offer ongoing classes in Theatre and Art in our of our 9,000 sq.’ facility in the heart of the Barelas neighborhood, to participants 11 years old and UP.

Please call or come by for more information on the next series of classes open for enrollment.

History

Established in 1988.

Since 1988, Working Classroom has created an internationally recognized program where students study art and theater, a bilingual theater company, a student gallery, academic tutoring center and college scholarship fund.

Our company has performed across New Mexico, at the Latino Chicago Theater and the World Congress on the Family in Columbus, Ohio; at the VII International Festival of Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and represented New Mexico at the First United Nations Congress on Girls.

Art students have written, illustrated and published graphic novels, exhibited art work, and created landmark public art.

Working Classroom has received The Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, De Colores Hispanic Heritage Month Education Leadership Award, the Rene Otto Castillo Award for Political Theater and the Alliance for Theatre Education’s Ann Flagg Award for Multicultural Theater. WC was featured in ‘Parade’ and in Family Circle’s 20 Ideas That Make America Great