PROGRAM DETAILS:
Date Sunday, December 8, 2024
Time 10 AM-12:15 PM
Where New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) | 106 E Main St., Los Gatos
Cost $65 NUMU Members | $80 General
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Pre-registration is required.
Age 15+ (minors must be accompanied by an adult)
Cynthia Brannvall's work explores themes of identity, geographical origins, and migrations. This Identity Mapping Collage Workshop invites you to share your origins and the places that have shaped who you are today by making your personal identity continent collage. Cut out the states, countries, or continents, snap and print a picture from your phone, and let your creativity be your guide.
The following materials will be included: nori paste, acrylic brushes, mixed media paper, scissors, wax paper, rice printed maps (on rice paper), and a portable Kodak photo printer for printing images from mobile phones.
Workshop attendees are encouraged to download the Kodak Photo Printer App before the workshop to print pictures from their phone to collage with. Images can also be emailed to the artist for guests who do not wish to download an app.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cynthia Brannvall is an art historian and a multi-media artist who teaches art history as a full-time faculty member of Foothill Community College. She is a California native of African American and Swedish descent. Cynthia has undergraduate degrees in Art Practice and Art History from UC Berkeley where she was a Phi Beta Kappa and a Ronald E. McNair scholar and was awarded the Departmental Citation for her research in Art History.
She has an MA in Art History from San Francisco State University with an emphasis on Modern and Contemporary art.
An advocate and ally for social justice and equity, Cynthia’s artwork explores identity formation envisioned in an imagined deep time terrain of memory, reclamation, and the geographies of forced and voluntary migrations of body and spirit.
Her artwork has selected for juried group exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Washington DC. Cynthia was selected for the 2022-2023 Emerging Artist’s Program at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco where she had her first solo exhibition March 29-June 12, 2022. Cynthia has published short essays for exhibition catalogs, has juried The Wild Side exhibition at Arc gallery in San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include works in the On Land exhibition at Marin MOCA and a solo exhibition Constellating Narratives at Butte College. Cynthia is currently making new work during a 4 Year studio residency award at Cubberley Art Studios Program in Palo Alto California.
If a registration minimum is not met, registrants will be refunded (minus transaction fees) and the workshop will be canceled.
