This free event offers local artists and art enthusiasts the opportunity to meet each other, create, collaborate, and celebrate the exhibition Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney.
Bring a friend or just yourself, and, in the spirit of the exhibition, create an original work of art together with fellow artists to compete for prizes.
Cash bar all night.
Part 1
6:00 – 7:00 pm | Time with the exhibition Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
7:00 – 8:00 pm | Artist talk with Artist Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
Part 2
8:00 – 9:00 pm | Collaborative art making in teams of 2-3
9:00 – 10:00 pm | Conversation, Critique & Selection of Winners
Prizes:
1st Place
- Complimentary ticket to the Artist Workshop with Nida Bangash
- $25 gift certificate to Lotus Shop
- Free membership which includes FREE parking in the Arts District
- Free champagne tour for up to 10 guests (1 per group)
- Winners posted on our website
2nd Place
- Swag Bag from the Lotus Shop
- Free membership which includes FREE parking in the Arts District (please read the fine print)
- Winners posted on our website
Part 2 of this event is now sold out!
Online registration is closed, walk-ups welcome for Part 1 of the event.
Seize the opportunity to work with local visual artist Nida Bangash.
Born in Iran and raised in Pakistan, Nida incorporates her training in the traditions of Persian and South Asian miniatures into her contemporary art practice. As a family, be inspired by works of art in our collection as well as Nida’s techniques to learn the basics of Persian illumination and geometric patterning. Participants will bring patterns to life using tracing materials and gouache, and each work will be considered for inclusion in a community exhibition. To learn more about the artist, visit her website.
*Please Note*
This workshop is for children Ages 8-12.
Registration includes one child and up to two accompanying adults
With Support from:
Mylan Nguyen is a Dallas native of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. She studied illustration in Los Angeles and ceramics in Japan and creates gallery and installation work in her own unique illustration style. Look and learn at the works of some of artist Mylan Nguyen’s favorite illustrators, Ako Castuera, Yumi Sakugawa, and Gerald Leung, and examine their approach to designing and creating compelling characters.
Participants will complete a small color wheel, practice brushstrokes, and salt techniques to create a unique piece on silk. Teens will get a chance to dream up and draw their own characters on silk with the loose theme of “imaginary friendship”. Then, participants will have the opportunity to engage in discussions around narrative, personal illustration style, and what it means to create a voice that is unique to the characters that come from one’s own world. Pieces from this workshop will be used by the artist to create a sculptural, interactive installation that will be displayed alongside participant work in a community exhibition.
*Please Note*
This workshop is for teens ages 13-18.
Join Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist, Sopheap Pich,
as he discusses Rang Phnom Flower (2015), his most ambitious single-form sculpture to date, with our Curator of Asian Art, Dr. Jacqueline Chao. Pich’s oversized sculpture conveys the power of nature and also prompts visitors to consider concepts of scale. The twenty-five-foot long sculpture, composed of hundreds of strands of rattan and bamboo, will be on view at the Crow Collection of Asian Art from June 24, 2017 through January 7, 2018 as part of Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich.
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Artist talk and Q&A
8:00 pm – 8:30 pm Meet and Greet with the Artist
Artist 2 Artist offers local artists and art enthusiasts the opportunity to meet each other, create, collaborate, and celebrate the exhibition Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich.
Bring a friend or just yourself, and, in the spirit of the exhibition, create an original collaborative work of art with fellow artists.Open bar from 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm. Prizes awarded to the winning team.
About the Artist:
Sopheap Pich (b. 1971) is recognized today as Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. Born in Battambang, Cambodia, he moved with his family to the United States in 1984, and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. In 2002, he returned to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he continues to be based. Pich is known for working with local materials such as bamboo, rattan, burlap from rice bags, beeswax and earth pigments gathered from around Cambodia and making sculptures that are inspired by bodily organs, vegetal forms, and abstract geometric structures. His childhood experiences during the genocidal conditions of late 1970s Cambodia has had a lasting impact on his work, informing its themes of time, memory and the body.
Schedule:
- 6:30 – 7:00 pm | Check-In & Time in the exhibition Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich
- 7:00 – 8:00 pm | A conversation with Sopheap Pich
- 8:00 – 9:00 pm | Collaborative art-making in teams of 2-3
- 9:00 – 9:30 pm | Presentation of Works, Peer Review & Selection of Winners
Winning Team will receive:
- Signed copy of Sopheap Pich’s catalog
- Free artist membership which includes FREE parking in the Arts District
- Winners posted on social media
Photo by Matthew Banderas. Courtesy of Whitman College.
This event offers local artists and art enthusiasts the opportunity to meet each other, create, and collaborate.
7:00 – 8:00 pm | Artist Jacob Hashimoto and curator Jacqueline Chao discuss Hashimoto’s newest site-specific installation and exhibition JACOB HASHIMOTO: Clouds and Chaos.
8:00 – 10:00 pm | Bring a friend or make some new ones, as you create a collaborative work of art in the spirit of JACOB HASHIMOTO: Clouds and Chaos. Following a conversation with curator Jacqueline Chao and Jacob Hashimoto, each team of artists will have one hour to create an artwork using only the materials provided. This friendly competition culminates with each participant voting on each team’s work, with the winners receiving a signed catalog from Jacob Hashimoto and an artist level membership. Beer and wine will be available. Must be 21 or older to participate.