Miguel Angel Flores
Day in the Life
“Art is an important form of knowledge that can’t be taught with words.” – Miguel Angel Flores
Miguel Flores remembers doodling all the time as a young child. He loved to draw mermaids. It was how he kept busy and found comfort growing up in a low-income family of first-generation Mexican immigrants in a small California town where he was different in “all the wrong ways.” As a senior in high school Miguel received a scholarship for emerging young arts, which made it possible for him to come to UCLA—The first in his family to go to college. Now in his third year and honored with an additional Resnick Scholarship, he continues to develop his artistic vision and voice.
An ardent observer of people—their emotions and behaviors—Miguel sees himself as a storyteller, translating that which is most personal and intimate into images and forms that speak to issues of identity and human frailty. What does he love most about UCLA? That he can take a communications class, a humanities class, a statistics class, and advanced sculpture, all in the same quarter.
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