Artmaking From Home:
Monuments for Essential Workers

Online, via Zoom

Experiment with ordinary materials in new and creative ways with these online artmaking events designed for all ages. Each project explores artworks from the Whitney’s collection included in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, and invites participants to consider the relationship between artmaking and our domestic spaces. All events in this series are live, thirty-minute sessions taught by a Whitney educator.

Inspired by the sculpture Angel: The Shoe Shiner by Pepón Osorio, this workshop encourages participants to use any materials available to make a monument to celebrate essential workers. This monument can take the form of a poster or sculpture with the intention that the monument will be displayed in a window to be shared with others. 

Instructor: Camilo Godoy is an artist and educator in New York City.

Suggested materials 

• Boxes (any size)
• Brown bags (any size)
• Empty toilet paper/paper towel rolls
• Photos of your choice of essential workers from magazines or newspapers
• Markers, crayons, colored pencils, paint, brushes
• Fabric
• Scissors
• Tape
• Glue