Artmaking From Home: / The Power of Pattern Sat, June 13, 2020, 3 pm

Artmaking From Home:
The Power of Pattern

Sat, June 13, 2020
3 pm

A photo of a yellow and orange patterned quilt.
A photo of a yellow and orange patterned quilt.

Rosie Lee Tompkins, Three Sixes, 1986. Quilted polyester double-knit, wool jersey and cotton, 89 3/4 × 71 1/2 in. (228 × 181.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2003.70. © Estate of Rosie Lee Tompkins

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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 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. 

Taking inspiration from works by Rosie Lee Tompkins and Miriam Schapiro, we will cut, tear, and arrange paper or fabric to model a pattern inspired by an object in your home. We will explore ways to use shape, repetition, and collage to focus our energy and activate the spiritual quotient in artmaking.

Instructor: Jaqueline Cedar is a visual artist and educator based in New York.

Materials

  • An object or photograph you feel connected to
  • Paper
  • Pencil

Optional additional materials

  • Markers or colored pencils
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Fabric, used clothing, washcloths, and/or dishtowels
  • Cardboard

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Learn more about this project

Learn more at whitney.org/artport

On the Hour projects can contain motion and sound. To respect your accessibility settings autoplay is disabled.