After School Art Club:
Julie Mehretu
Wed, June 30, 2021
4–5 pm
Julie Mehretu, Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) Part 3, 2012. Ink and acrylic paint on canvas, 180 × 144 1/8 in. (457.2 × 366.08 cm). Tate, purchased with funds provided by Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian and Ago Demirdjian, Andreas Kurtz and the Tate Americas Foundation 2014. Photograph © White Cube, Ben Westoby. © Julie Mehretu
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For kids ages 5–10
Welcome to After School Art Club, a free weekly online program with Whitney educators! Kids ages 5 to 10 are invited to experiment and make art with at-home art materials. Tell a friend and join the club!
This week’s activity is inspired by Julie Mehretu. Together, we will dive into the artist’s complex and large-scale artworks, which are built up through layers of paint, pencil, pen, and ink. Mehretu takes her visual vocabulary from maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms. These are combined to make dynamic works that blur the line between abstraction and figuration.
Together, we will think about places that are important to us. Then, we will make our own compositions inspired by maps.
Materials:
- Paper
- Pencil
- Color options:
- Markers
- Colored pencils
- Watercolor paints
- Crayons
