COMMUNITY WORKSHOP AT KOLAJ INSTITUTE
Thursday, 29 August 2024, 6-8PM at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans. How will we heal? How do we discover consolation? How will we relaxation? Throughout this two-hour collage workshop, hosted by Montclair, New Jersey-based artist gwen charles and Brooklyn, New York-artist Colleen Coleman as a part of their joint residency at Kolaj Institute, individuals will make collage and discover concepts of therapeutic and relaxation. In Half one, charles’ will draw on her present follow of making art work across the theme of consolation after an intense interval of caretaking. Individuals might be invited to collage and draw photos associated to consolation and as a solution to course of their very own private narratives. She wrote, “The mattress, the final word image of consolation and relaxation, is used as a base for writings and pictures, to create a dream of a constructive future and reframe the previous on this artistic, therapeutic follow.” Partly two, Coleman will introduce the fascinating world of chakras and artistic expression. Utilizing a parafiction central to the artists work, “you’ll be launched to the seven chakra energies by the lens of seven time-traveling aliens, every embodying the qualities of a selected chakra.” Individuals might be invited to pick out a chakra that resonates with them and make a collage on a hand fan as a method of exploring its therapeutic potential. Individuals will go away the workshop with collages they make and a coronary heart stuffed with concepts about therapeutic and relaxation. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full shade, print journal, exists to indicate 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.