Take Care with Art After Dark: Creating Collages
@ Smart Museum of Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, December 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join us for a virtual gathering that mixes art-making and conversation inspired by the Smart Museum’s exhibition Take Care.
Led by Rita Alvarez, Lead Museum Educator at the Smart Museum, this Art After Dark program looks at Suellen Rocca’s painting Cha Cha Couple. Using one piece of paper, cardboard from our numerous at home deliveries or from a pizza box, participants will draw/color/create/glue/tape a collage of their own. Join in from home—relax and create together during this guided art-making session and discussion about what it means to “take care” and how we care for ourselves and others.
Rita Alvarez is a former Social Services Coordinator, Community Activist, primary grade CPS Teacher, Dual Language Consultant, TV/Movie Extra, current Non Profit Executive Director of Sunflower Project US, Caregiver, and Lead Museum Educator. She discovered her appreciation for art later in life and believes that art provides an important pathway to expression, activism, social commentary, empowerment, relaxation and fun.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registrations is required.
Suggested materials
- Blank paper (several sheets)
- Cardboard
- Construction paper
- Miscellaneous objects—magazines, buttons, etc
- Scissors
- Glue
- Tape
- A pen, pencil, crayons, or markers
- Glass of wine/libation of choice/non-alcoholic beverage
Image: Suellen Rocca, Cha Cha Couple (detail), 1967, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Ruth Horwich 1997.19. © Suellen Rocca.
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