Family Workshops: Nesting the Arts Project
Join us for a series of workshops designed for families to create together!
Resident Artists Annie Legnini will guide you through a series of hands-on activities with different art materials. There are only spaces available for 10 families to join and RSVP is REQUIRED. families must commit to attending a minimum of 2 out of the 3 workshops. Families that attend all three workshops will receive a special gift at the end of the program so that art can continue to happen at home!!
Three Saturdays: From 1 to 3 pm
11/23/2019
12/7/2019
12/14/2019
At BxArts Factory, 240 E 153rd Street, Bronx NY 10451
11/23: Portrait Exchange (Bronx Faces Inspired) Portraiture Workshop – In this workshop, families will be guided to create portraits of one another. Families creating portraits of one another honors the person being created, giving time, energy, and love to the representation of the person that you are creating. Portraiture is an intimate experience where you capture the essence of a person – not only their physical presence, but their aura or energy. To create this fully realized version of someone, I’d like to encourage family members to use a variety of materials: crayon, marker, oil pastel, paint, glitter glue, collage paper, and so on.
12/7: Material as Memory – In this workshop, families will be encouraged to bring in materials that no longer serve a direct purpose in one’s life, but can’t seem to let go of due to the memories associated with them. These should be materials that one is comfortable with re-purposing into art. Some examples of materials can be old pieces of jewelry, baby clothes, old buttons to a favorite jacket, movie tickets, concert tickets, pictures, and so on. In this workshop, we will be turning these memories into pieces of collaged/sculptural art.
12/14: Multitude of Me – In this workshop, I’d like to have participants create self portraits that represent the totality of who they are. I’d have us brainstorm first, creating lists, webs, and maps, of key elements that make up the core of one’s identity. Then from these maps, we would create ‘self portraits’ (does not have to be a traditional self portrait, for example, if someone would like to create an abstract expressionist self portrait, that is fine) based off of these core parts of our being.
