Bio Art: Artmaking with Nature (1-Day Creative Class Workshop)
Schedule
Sat Aug 03 2024 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm
Location
100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO, United States, Colorado 80204 | Denver, CO
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This workshop combines art history and experimentation to explore the emerging movement of Bio Art. Rooted in environmental concerns and science, Bio Art can range from working with natural materials to manipulating DNA. Participants will learn new ways to look at art, represented in the DAM’s collection by artists like Ernesto Neto and Karen Kitchel.Learn more and sign up here: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/calendar/creative-classes-bio-art-august-2024
No prior technical knowledge or specific experience is required, though a sense of curiosity and willingness to experiment will be richly rewarded. The DAM’s Sensory Garden will be a focal point, and the class will feature a lecture along with hands-on experimentation and artmaking.
What to Expect: The class will begin with an introduction to a material or way of making with a brief lecture meant to inspire and inform. Then students will be invited to explore materials, with time saved at the end to share our work. Experimentation is greatly encouraged. This is a class with no real rules except for safety.
Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice.
Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/creative-classes
About the Educator:
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is a bio artist, sculptor, curator and writer living in Denver, Colorado. She received her master of fine arts from The Ohio State University on University Fellowship in 2012 and has spent her life building community and DIY gallery spaces and advocating for artists alongside her own robust studio practice. Her work is research-driven and science-based, and focuses on insect extinction, mutation, climate change and biophilia. Much of her work is made by collaborating with endangered species and the systems they employ, such as building sculptures with bees or making drawings with snails.
Image courtesy of Lauri Lynnxe Murphy.
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Where is it happening?
100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO, United States, Colorado 80204Event Location & Nearby Stays:
