Creative Momentum: Get Back In the Game with Michael Webster

Name: Creative Momentum: Get Back In the Game with Michael Webster
Start: 2024-07-20T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-20T15:00:00-04:00
Location: McColl Center

Schedule

Sat Jul 20 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

McColl Center | Charlotte, NC

How to get back into making art, and keeping it going! Have you ever struggled to find the time, resources, or energy to create your artwork? Has a regular studio practice eluded you since graduating?
"After completing my MFA program I didn't make artwork for 4 years, but I eventually regained my creative momentum, and now I teach my college students the strategies for keeping the creative fire burning. I'll cover how to make art with limited resources, restart your practice after a long break, and maintain momentum once you get going. " -Michael Webster
This workshop is open to adults of any experience level, ages 16+.
About the Artist:
Michael Webster responds to the social organization of space through site-specific projects, sculpture, and lens-based media. His work is context-driven and materially attuned, investigating the effects of power on social geography with a focus on long-term participatory projects rooted in the southern United States. He has attended residencies at ChaNorth, Hambidge Center, Elsewhere Living Museum, and Penland School of Craft. He was the runner- up for the 2023 SouthArts Southern Prize and was selected as the South Carolina State Fellow.
His exhibitions include the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Locust Projects, and the LIVLAB Watershed Space at Western Carolina University. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from East Carolina University and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, he is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL and an Assistant Professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.