COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Wednesday, 31 July 2024, 6-8PM at Kolaj Institute Gallery
This workshop is a name to spell solid via collage. This workshop’s intention is to present honor to Mom Earth and the life-giving inspiration she brings by honoring the fantastic thing about the weather, particularly water, and extra particularly, the Mississippi River. By way of collage, we’ll interact in intentional making that explores the dominant attract that’s the spirit of the water. Curated like a guided meditation, we’ll hear the voices of the whales, interact in witness writing, and finish with a collage in course of. Alexis Pauline Gumbs says, “Could you style the recent and the saltwater of your self and know what solely you’ll be able to know. Could you reside within the mouth of the river, assembly place of the tides, could all blessings movement via you.” We are going to meditate on how the inventive flows via us and the ability we have now as artists to maneuver data very like the river. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To know collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.