This online workshop will dive into the process of generating a new body of work through the appropriation and repurposing of pre-existing archives.
These archives may be work that you have created, but want to utilize in a new way or work that you have never published, but want to revisit.
We will also investigate ways to use family photos, and appropriated images to produce a project that is personal to you and your vision.
What you will do:
-Find a through line via research or visual interest (conceptual ideas and what is the new narrative).
-Exploring tools for reproduction and alteration (collage, embroidery, destruction, etc.).
-Provide new ways of viewing: How installation plays a part in repurposing / refreshing an archive, when is a book appropriate and can show work in a new way, etc.
-Examining relevant contemporary artists who are working with archival images.
-Make work and receive critique, mentoring and feedback as the projects move forward
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Dates: Eight bi-weekly sessions (Aug 20 - Nov 26, 2024, once every other week).
(Aug 20, Sep 3, Sep 17, Oct 1, Oct 15, Oct 29, Nov 12, and Nov 26).
Times: Tuesdays, every other week, 6:30pm - 9:00pm, ET. This is a virtual class.
Course Fee: $895 members /$945 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
About the Instructor:
Caleb Cole is a Midwest-born, Boston-based artist whose work addresses the opportunities and difficulties of queer belonging. Using collage, assemblage, photography, and video, they bring secondhand objects and media together for chance encounters, deliberately placing materials from different time periods into conversation with one another as a means of thinking about a lineage of queer culture while resisting a singular progressive genealogy. Caleb has received an Artadia Finalist Award, Hearst 8×10 Biennial Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships, Magenta Flash Forward Foundation Fellowships, and Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist awards, among other distinctions. Caleb exhibits regularly at a variety of national venues and has held solo shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newport Art Museum, Davis Art Museum, Brown University Art Museum, and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. Caleb is represented by Gallery Kayafas, Boston. Click here for more information about Caleb Cole.