Inspired by the exhibition, Finding Your Voice: Café Con Leche Co-Curates, on view in the galleries June 4-September 24.
“An artist’s book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the structure or function of “book” as inspiration—a work of art in book form.” – Smithsonian Libraries
What is the schedule?
On the Wall Workshops introduce you to artworks in a current exhibition and include group instruction. Please arrive at the start time and plan to attend both Part 1 and Part 2. Choose Thursday evenings or Saturday afternoons, or mix and match times to fit your schedule!
Please note: due to schedule challenges, this workshop is offered in two-parts on Thursday evenings, June 9 and 23, and a in single all-inclusive version on Saturday, June 11.
Reserve your seat today!
The workshop is free. Seats are limited to 20 participants.
To reserve please call 940-397-8900 or email wfma@msutexas.edu.
What is your voice?
This workshop uses a repurposed hardcover book to create an art journal, a technique known as “second voice journaling” or “art junk journal.” Inspired by the current exhibition Finding Your Voice, featuring works by Hispanic, Latino, and Chicano artists, this workshop invites you to observe how contemporary artists use visual language to share personal experiences of cultural identity or heritage that contribute to the human family. Through the artist’s book medium, participants may explore the unique elements of heritage that have shaped one’s own life.
What should I expect from this workshop?
This is a two-part workshop. In the first class, after seeing the current exhibition Finding Your Voice, you will choose a hardcover used book and begin to prepare pages with a gesso layer for painting later and/or create collage pages. In the second class, you will continue collage, create paintings on the gesso pages and/or write black-out poetry.
What do I bring?
Participants may choose to bring a hardcover book you don’t mind turning into art; and magazines, photographs, letters, ribbon, etc. for collage. All materials, including books, will be provided!
For inspiration, check out these examples by American artists:
National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Library and Research Center
https://nmwa.org/learn/library-research/artists-books/
Gaby Berglund Cardenas, exhibiting in Finding Your Voice
https://gabyberglundcardenas.com/workshops-and-publications/
Guadalupe Hernandez, exhibiting in Finding Your Voice
https://www.guadalupehernandezart.com/artwork
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