Imagining Ourselves: Self Portraiture through Kind Eyes (Sundays 10am-12pm)
3-Part Workshop
DATES: 11/10, 11/17, 11/24
Class Description:
"Imagining Ourselves: Self Portraiture through Kind Eyes" is a series of creative prompts and reflections that allow us to reimagine our own image disentangled from harmful narratives about our bodies and appearances, and appreciate ourselves through art. We receive so many messages about what is and isn’t worth documenting when it comes to our bodies, so this is about writing new stories. This is about allowing ourselves to be the art that we are by creating art that represents us in new ways. Through meditations, journal prompts, and art activities that stray from traditional self portraiture prompts, we will prioritize process over outcome, and building community with others who are untangling similar things. We will look at self portraiture throughout art history, and determine a style/theme for a longer form self portrait of our own.
Teacher Info:
I am a multidisciplinary artist – a painter, photographer, and teaching artist - who divests daily from art as a pursuit of perfection, to instead use art as a catalyst for joy. My practice is an invitation for self-connection and community building, with a focus on 'process over product. With my art, I hope to build the spaces I needed but did not have in my youth. In my art workshops, I guide emotional exploration and self-connection through non-traditional self-portraiture. My current painting series, “Rose Colored,” serves as a fictional timeline for my younger self, who was nurtured into her queerness at an earlier age. My art explores queer intimacy as something divine, and reveres the small, tender moments as the impactful forces that shape us.
3-Part Workshop
DATES: 11/10, 11/17, 11/24
Class Description:
"Imagining Ourselves: Self Portraiture through Kind Eyes" is a series of creative prompts and reflections that allow us to reimagine our own image disentangled from harmful narratives about our bodies and appearances, and appreciate ourselves through art. We receive so many messages about what is and isn’t worth documenting when it comes to our bodies, so this is about writing new stories. This is about allowing ourselves to be the art that we are by creating art that represents us in new ways. Through meditations, journal prompts, and art activities that stray from traditional self portraiture prompts, we will prioritize process over outcome, and building community with others who are untangling similar things. We will look at self portraiture throughout art history, and determine a style/theme for a longer form self portrait of our own.
Teacher Info:
I am a multidisciplinary artist – a painter, photographer, and teaching artist - who divests daily from art as a pursuit of perfection, to instead use art as a catalyst for joy. My practice is an invitation for self-connection and community building, with a focus on 'process over product. With my art, I hope to build the spaces I needed but did not have in my youth. In my art workshops, I guide emotional exploration and self-connection through non-traditional self-portraiture. My current painting series, “Rose Colored,” serves as a fictional timeline for my younger self, who was nurtured into her queerness at an earlier age. My art explores queer intimacy as something divine, and reveres the small, tender moments as the impactful forces that shape us.
3-Part Workshop
DATES: 11/10, 11/17, 11/24
Class Description:
"Imagining Ourselves: Self Portraiture through Kind Eyes" is a series of creative prompts and reflections that allow us to reimagine our own image disentangled from harmful narratives about our bodies and appearances, and appreciate ourselves through art. We receive so many messages about what is and isn’t worth documenting when it comes to our bodies, so this is about writing new stories. This is about allowing ourselves to be the art that we are by creating art that represents us in new ways. Through meditations, journal prompts, and art activities that stray from traditional self portraiture prompts, we will prioritize process over outcome, and building community with others who are untangling similar things. We will look at self portraiture throughout art history, and determine a style/theme for a longer form self portrait of our own.
Teacher Info:
I am a multidisciplinary artist – a painter, photographer, and teaching artist - who divests daily from art as a pursuit of perfection, to instead use art as a catalyst for joy. My practice is an invitation for self-connection and community building, with a focus on 'process over product. With my art, I hope to build the spaces I needed but did not have in my youth. In my art workshops, I guide emotional exploration and self-connection through non-traditional self-portraiture. My current painting series, “Rose Colored,” serves as a fictional timeline for my younger self, who was nurtured into her queerness at an earlier age. My art explores queer intimacy as something divine, and reveres the small, tender moments as the impactful forces that shape us.