Open Studio for Teens:
Inspired by Julie Mehretu
Inspired by Julie Mehretu
Fri, July 9, 2021
12 pm
Julie Mehretu, Hineni (E. 3:4), 2018. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 96 × 120 in. (243.84 × 304.8 cm). Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle; gift of George Economou, 2019. © Julie Mehretu. Photograph by Tom Powel Imaging
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High school students, grades 9–12
Teens are invited to a free artmaking program on Zoom with Whitney educators. Each week, participants will experiment, create, and learn together with at-home art projects inspired by the Whitney’s exhibitions and collection.
Inspired by Julie Mehretu’s use of line and tone variation, teens will create layers of textured drawings. Mehretu’s practice often focuses on abstraction, architecture, landscape, scale, and, most recently, figuration.
Materials List:
- Tracing paper or thin notebook paper
- Masking tape
- Pencil
- Color pencil or crayon.
- Textured surfaces (coins, lace fabric, brick wall, floor surfaces, etc)
