The Vaquero Innovation Platform (VIP) Idea Lab at UTRGV fosters creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. It allows participants to explore their passions, develop innovative ideas, and bring them to life.

Send your young artist to Kidcreate to make all they will need for a fabulous New Year’s Eve celebration. We will create noisemakers, party poppers, and New Year’s Eve hats.

Send your elf to Camp Christmas to create crafts all with a Christmas theme. They’ll have a holly jolly time as they draw and pain Santa, create Santa bobble heads and so much more.

Break from your daily routines and let’s get together to enjoy the fun of making piñatas. Participants can express themselves through the design, colors, and decorations of their piñatas.

Learn to make T-shirt yarn and use it to make a necklace or a belt and help artist Rene Garza crate woven panels of textiles that will be incorporated in his upcoming exhibit.

“Alebrijes Workshop” “Embrace Tradition, Craft Your Legacy” Join us for an Alebrije Workshop with Oaxacan’s third-generation artists this Dia de los Muertos! With Efrain Fuentes & Silvia Gomez from Oaxaca,