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Materiality and Memory with Karen Ami & Pamela Irving
Materiality and Memory with Karen Ami & Pamela Irving of The Chicago Mosaic School
Dates & Times: Friday-Monday, November 1-4, 2024 9AM-5PM
Cost: $500.00
In this 4-day experimental mosaic workshop, artists Karen Ami (US) and Pamela Irving (Australia) bring their expertise and collaborative experience to Bethany to teach Materiality and Memory, a workshop to develop your art practice and expand your creative language. Karen and Pamela will lead students through a series of exercises that will evoke and explore aspects of personal memory and individual subjective experience while also addressing more general and abstract ideas through mosaic, collage and writing.
This workshop is ideal for artists looking to find their own style and voice through material artmaking and creating ideas and awareness for future works. Over the 4-day workshop, students will be doing individual as well as collaborative exercises that will open new methods for developing artistic ideas through play and experimentation. Mosaic, collage and writing are how we can learn to express those ideas to build our expression and practices.
We ask that participants bring copies of family photos (people places things), small mementos (an odd earring, a coin, a stone, etc.), any additional materials they would like to use in a mosaic (Broken dishes, etc.). Students will be given workbooks, some drawing and other materials and use of tools that are included with the workshop.
About Karen
Karen Ami is passionate about facilitating collaborations, sharing knowledge and an informed understanding of mosaic art. and continues to be an ambassador for the school and the art form. In addition to establishing and leading CMS for 18 years, she is a curator, lecturer and practitioner and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Studies. MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, The Boston Museum School/Tufts University. She has exhibited in over 24 countries and her works can be found in many public and private collections.
https://karenami.com/
About Pamela
Pamela Irving is well known throughout the world for creating works that are full of color and character, whimsy and subversion. Her large-scale installations can be seen around the city of Melbourne, most notably at Luna Park and Patterson Station (an international mosaic mural collaboration which she facilitated over several years). Pamela’s use of materials- broken china, found objects, and ceramic shards shows her unique approach to mosaic art.
https://www.pamelairving.com.au/
