The Art Museum is partnering with the Arts Council of Princeton to provide free online art-making experiences. Weekly classes are taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom, so participants can join live from home. A variety of media and techniques will be explored, using materials readily available. Each week’s lesson features works from the Museum’s collections and is introduced by an Art Museum Student Tour Guide.
This live art-making class is inspired by El Anatsui’s Another Place. This shimmering, opalescent scrim of metal is composed of hundreds of ordinary bottle tops collected by the artist. Removed from alcoholic beverage containers, these caps proliferate by the thousands in junk depots in Nigeria, where they symbolize the local manifestation of a global problem involving waste, consumption, and recycling. In Another Place, the artist deftly choreographs color, shape, reflection, and opacity to produce a stunning abstract design. In this class we will use recycled materials found at home to create an abstract collage.
Free registration for the drawing class via Zoom here. (when prompted, click to sign in as “attendee”)
This event will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the "CC" icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.
Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar "español" o el idioma de su elección.
Materials List
Any items from your recycling bin that are clean, such as cardboard, envelopes, newspapers, mailers, food wrappers, or grocery bags
Cardboard for your artwork’s base
Mod Podge and paintbrush for stubborn materials
Glue stick for flexible materials
Pen or pencil
LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.
Spanish-language live closed-captioning for this program is made possible by the Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council.
