Visiting Artist: Olmeca

Client: Van Wezel Foundation

Van Wezel Foundation brings innovative programming and the IDEA initiative (Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Access) is no exception.

Meet Olmeca, VWF’s first IDEA artist in residence. His year-long virtual and in-person residency included workshops and performances for educators, students, families, and community leaders.

Olmeca is a Bilingual Hip-Hop artist, producer, activist and scholar who has been featured on Complex Magazine, Billboard, NPR, Huffington Post, Noisey, and Democracy Now. His work has been featured on various documentaries on PBS, BBC World, as well as, featured films. He has written music for tv shows including “Sons of Anarchy,” and new series, “The Mayans” on FX and toured Latin American, U.S. and Europe.

Olmeca was also a Kennedy Center's Citizen Artist Fellow.

Learn more at www.olmecaofficial.com.