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Opening reception in the museum
Image: Adria Pecora, Nets, 2007
Marker on velum, 5 x 7 inches,
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How many types of magnets have you come across in your life? Starting May 1st, stick to SMoCA and bring a magnet to place on the outside of the Museum’s metal building during May Museum Magnet Month. We encourage everyone to participate with fun magnets that are a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Let’s see what attracts you to SMoCA. Join us for a collective group portrait with the accumulated result on Thursday May 31 at 5:30 pm
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Test your hand at drawing and exercising your right brain, led by the area artists featured in southwestNET: drawing outside the lines. ENTHUSIASM BUT NO PRIOR ART TRAINING REQUIRED.
All sessions are free. For all levels. Pre-registration is required. Call 480-874-4641.
| "A line is a point taken for a walk," said the early modernist Paul Klee. Imagine a simple line drawing that meanders across a surface, traverses edges, shadow, texture, form. Imagine yourself walking that line.
Image: Karen Kimmel (and Creative Growth Artists), 2006, Dialogues: Stencil Project ( workshop detail), wood, paint and paper pads, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist
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Join Angela Ellsworth, assistant professor of intermedia at the Herberger College of Fine Art, Arizona State University [ASU], to experience drawing as you move through the landscape and connect mark and movement. Ellsworth has taught interdisciplinary art in Italy and the United States for fifteen years. She believes anyone can learn how to draw and is passionate about teaching, making and walking.
Bring a sketchbook (at least 8" x 10" but not larger than 14" x 17,” easy to carry and comfortable to use); pencils or charcoal; and a gum eraser. If you are a beginner and have no art supplies, a few basic materials will be provided. Wear sunscreen, a hat, comfortable shoes and clothing: bring a light backpack or pouch for your belongings. Bring water. Participants will not be able to carry anything but paper and drawing utensils.
Meet in the Museum lobby. |
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Learn to see more closely and experience the creative process of art-making in this interactive gallery experience. Join artists Deborah Salac and Adria Pecora as they redefine drawing in two sequential 45-minute workshops.
Image: artist Steve Yazzie preparing his go-cart sketch
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Forget your standard pencil and instead experiment with transparent media such as tape and glue with Deborah Salac as you make drawings that play with the subtleties of light and line.
Adria Pecora will show participants how to use age-old systems of divination, (such as tarot cards and the I Ching), to generate imagery. Students will create group drawings by layering images made individually on transparent paper, then combined in compositions generated through divination games with cards, string and sticks.
Supplies will be provided. Meet in the Museum lobby. |
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Feed your imagination and creative curiosity in two sequential 45-minute interactive workshops in the galleries with artists Steve Yazzie and Jen Urso.
Image: Jen Urso, Ice flow, 2007, Ink on paper, water, 30 ½ x 32 inches, courtesy of the artist
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Most of what we see daily is out of our control. Drawing is, in part, a means of framing and controlling a set of images. With Jen Urso, create a drawing that integrates control with unpredictability—the delicate balance of life. Spill a soda, stain paper, make a rubbing of natural forms, fracture glass: start with a chance process and then riff off of the result with a drawing. Or try the reverse—create a drawing, then alter it through a random process.
Sometimes speed helps one overcome the limitations of the conscious mind. See what happens when you work fast and from impulse. Participants will make quick drawings with Steven Yazzie, viewing video footage he has taken at locations such as Glen Canyon Dam, the Grand Canyon, Saguaro National Park and South Mountain. Participants will have a special opportunity to view Yazzie’s working “out takes” and to hear more about Yazzie's most-unusual process of landscape drawing on a customized go-cart.
Supplies will be provided. Meet in the Museum lobby. |
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Tours
Image: artist Willie Birch talking to children about
his art exhibition
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As always there are Free Exhibition tours of southwestNET: drawing outside the lines and the other exhibitions on view
led by SMoCA docents: every and by appointment. Call 480-874-4641. |
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