Activities

Public Program

La Cuadra's Public Program creates experiences that bring people closer to architecture, heritage, art, design, and culture through participation, dialogue, and shared exploration.

Through workshops, tours, conversations, and other activities, the program creates spaces for artists, experts, communities, and institutions to come together, share their knowledge, exchange perspectives, and collectively build knowledge.

Each experience aims to strengthen the bond between people and La Cuadra, fostering a community that finds in curiosity, contemplation, creativity, and learning a starting point for discovering new ways of living in and understanding its surroundings.

"Urban Sketchers at La Cuadra" is a public program developed in collaboration with Urban Sketchers CDMX that invites visitors to explore the museum’s architecture and spaces through on-site sketching.

The program consists of four sessions: two regular on-site drawing sessions (July 14 and 28), during which participants will explore the museum to draw from direct observation; and two special sessions that expand the experience through dialogue with other artistic disciplines:

July 18 — Guided Drawing

Workshop led by Harumi Tanimoto, who will guide participants through exercises in observing and representing architectural space.

August 1 — Drawing of the Movement

A session led by María Begoña Bertán, featuring contemporary dance performers Valeria Palermo and Andrea Alonso, who will bring the space to life through improvisation to explore the lines of the human figure in motion.

Aimed at young people and adults ages 12 and up, the program promotes observation, creativity, and the intersection of drawing, architecture, and dance.

Guest Artists —

Harumi Tanimoto

Mexican visual communicator and illustrator. Her work explores the connection between illustration, architecture, and cultural identity, incorporating influences from Mexican and Japanese cultures. She has collaborated with architecture firms and cultural spaces such as a911, VGZ, the Tamayo Museum, and Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura.

María Begoña Bertán

Visual artist and educator, specializing in humanist painting and drawing. A graduate of the Florence Academy of Art, her practice draws on the methods of academic painting to explore the human figure, mythologies, and contemporary representations of the feminine. She has exhibited her work in Florence, London, Mexico City, and San Miguel de Allende, and currently combines her artistic practice with teaching, sharing tools and knowledge related to drawing and painting.

Valeria Palermo

She holds a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance from the National Center for Contemporary Dance. She has participated in various stage productions and has performed at the Esperanza Iris City Theater. Her practice combines improvisation, physical research, and the exploration of various movement languages, viewing dance as a space for creation, play, and experimentation.

Andrea Alonso

A professional dancer and teacher certified by the Broadway Dance Center in New York. Her career as a performer and choreographer in Mexico and the United States integrates contemporary dance, ballet, and jazz through an interdisciplinary approach. She views movement as a tool for exploration, expression, and collective creation.

Registration link — Urban Sketchers at La Cuadra