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Art Legacy: Neill James & Ajijic's Children's Art Program | Jesus Victoriano Lopez Vega | TEDxAjijic

What happens when an expatriates woman moves to a small Mexican village and has an idea to open a Spanish library, and to teach local children art? It's an idea that Neill James had over 70 years ago in the small Mexican town of Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, and has developed some of Mexico's most prolific "legacy artists." Jesus Lopez Vega explores the intersection of the personal and the cultural in his paintings, sculpture and murals. He has works in private art collections all over the world, and has exhibited in galleries throughout Mexico. In Jesus’s mystical works you will find the visions of the ancients, the energy of Mexico’s native traditions, the schemes of its political reformers, and an individual’s psychological experience of it all. Jesus is largely a self-taught artist, and he credits his childhood immersion in art as the reason he has found a high-level of artistic success today. “I was so fortunate to find myself at the Neil James’ children’s art program each Saturday,” he says. “There, I learned technique and was given confidence.” Whenever he’s not honing a new artistic vision, Vega can be found teaching in volunteer capacity at the ongoing Children’s Art Program at the Lake Chapala Society in Ajijic, founded forty five years ago by Miss James, one of Ajijic’s original expatriates. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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