Artmaking From Home: / Monuments for Essential Workers Sat, May 16, 2020, 3 pm

Artmaking From Home:
Monuments for Essential Workers

Sat, May 16, 2020
3 pm

Artmaking From Home Automated captioning Courses & workshops Online
An elaborate gold throne covered in tiny trinkets with small TV monitors under the seat and at the crest. Covering the seatback, a photo of a Puerto Rican man in an apron and cap. Beside the throne, a footstool with a Puerto Rican flag and lined with fringe 
An elaborate gold throne covered in tiny trinkets with small TV monitors under the seat and at the crest. Covering the seatback, a photo of a Puerto Rican man in an apron and cap. Beside the throne, a footstool with a Puerto Rican flag and lined with fringe 

Pepón Osorio, Angel: The Shoe Shiner, 1993. Two-channel video installation, color, silent, 5 sec. and 41 sec. looped, with two monitors, painted wood, rubber, fabric, glass, ceramic, shells, painted cast iron, hand-tinted photographs, paper, and mirror, dimensions variable Aspect Ratio: 4:3. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 93.100

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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

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