Family Art Workshops

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All ages will enjoy our family art projects. Work on a new project each week. Try your hand working with a variety of art mediums — all materials supplied. Child and grown-up friendly! 

October 26: Let's Banner Together!

Create banners expressing your passions and convictions, inspired Kate DeCiccio’s atrium installation “Blooming Abolition,” part of the “Broken Boxes” exhibition. In this workshop Instructor Remy Sinegal will guide us in using fabric, embroidery, and markers to craft banners conveying what you love, care about, and would like to protect.

November 2: Shoebox Parade Float

Make a mini shoebox parade float with instructor Remy Sinegal inspired by Mario Ybarra Jr.’s installation in the “Broken Boxes” exhibition. Enter your float in the parade during the Community Event after the workshop. The afternoon includes Ybarra deejaying old- school tunes inspired by his parade float honoring his mother, a Día de los Muertos celebration, food trucks, and community art making.

Instructor: Remy Sinegal

November 9: 

Check out Saya Woolfalk’s playful video, “No Place,” in the “Broken Boxes” exhibition and come make a fun paper lantern using Sharpies and colored pens.

Instructor:  Harley Kirschner

November 16: (Almost) Good Enough to Eat

Cooler weather brings an abundance of traditions and feasting is a large part of many of them. Come make some delicious dessert sculptures inspired by the Alvarado Hotel dessert case in the Only in Albuquerque exhibition. Craft our sculptures using sponges, model magic and paint and do not forget to make some plates and silver to serve them up!

Instructor:  Harley Kirschner

November 23: Gratitude Bowls

Inspired by Diego Romero's illustrative bowls in the “Common Ground” exhibition, instructor Shelly Korte will guide us in creating decorative drawings around the theme of gratitude and nourishment. We will work directly on the bowls using sharpie marker.

Instructor:  Shelly Korte

November 30: Cave Landscapes

In the “Common Ground” exhibition, there are three beautiful interpretations of the Carlsbad Caverns by Raymond Jonson. For this project, instructor Remy Sinegal will guide us in making our own stencils focusing on shape and colors as we reimagine our version of a cave landscape.

Instructor:   Remy Sinegal

Harley Kirschner is a mixed media artist and art instructor. He has a passion for mixed media, incorporating many different techniques into each object he makes. Although his roots are in collage and painting, he has been exploring place-based art for over a decade with students and has created permanent installations on his own. This is where his passion for garden art comes in. In addition to creating magical worlds, Harley has a passion for textiles and is always exploring new techniques to enliven fabric.

Michelle (Shelly) Korte is a multimedia artist—painting, drawing, sculpting, collaging, writing, printmaking, and performing. She is fascinated by the ways in which ecology, industry and ceremony interest - defining the role of humans as animals, consumers, and healers. As a curious traveler and investigator, Shelly has taught and shown her work around the world for over 20 years. As an educator, she also allows art to be a conduit of self-inquiry, expression, and problem solving. She has lived in the Manzano Mountains of Tijeras, NM with her young son since 2014 where she has been growing a creative, communal arts and healing space.

Remy Sinegal was born in California, coming to the University of New Mexico for college where she received a Bachelors in Art with a minor in Medieval Studies. She is a poet and illustrator, using a variety of media such as pencils, paints, pastels, sculpture and digital media. History both true and fictional inspire the themes of her work. Inspired by multicultural mythology, folklore, as well as modern influences like animated media, wildlife and how everyone's personal experiences shape the world around them. Believing that there is magic in embracing the mundanity of life she tries to create something exceptional and fun every time she picks up a pencil. The art of storytelling to pass on cultural superstitions inspires her to write, and illustrate her own fantastical tales, which she hopes to bring to life one day through graphic novels or animation.

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