Aspen Art Museum

Join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MDT) for Art Studio Live! This week, we embark on a step-by-step journey into the world of origami—from the Japanese words ori (“folding”) and kami (“paper”)—to create animal sculptures with paper you have around your own house!

Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence Sahra Motalebi invites viewers on a visit to Marfa, Texas, where she reflects on what it means to create work away from her home base of New York state. The artist, composer, vocalist, and writer provides perspectives on how our notions of expression are being updated at this time while sharing the surrounding natural desert landscape with us. Motalebi also introduces Resonators, her current project that addresses the intersections of experience, materiality, and sound.

Join us for a fun and very hands-on Art Studio Live!, this Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MDT). We’ll be making our own dough and turning it into nature handprints inspired by the work of Kelly Akashi. Be sure to go outside and gather some natural materials. Looking forward to “seeing” you then!

Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s Director of Programs and Artistic Director of Photography and New Media, Andrea Jenkins Wallace, speaks about the new virtual program at the Ranch and how engagement with local and global audiences is being redefined. Wallace also introduces her ongoing practice as a photographer, which emphasizes and responds to her experiences of daily life.

Turn all those delivery boxes into your own imagined museum! Using the boxes and paper, we will create a space to install and display your favorite art pieces found in magazines, draw or color the walls with your own artwork, or make sculptures out of toys like Legos!

Is it necessary—or even feasible—to maintain the same habits and practices we held before the world went on lockdown? Los Angeles–based artist Clarissa Tossin, currently an artist-in-residence at the Curtis. R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, New York, discusses a redefinition of productivity and her inspiration right now. Tossin also unveils in-progress projects and plays an excerpt from a recent score using 3-D-printed replicas of pre-Columbian musical instruments.

Join the AAM and a group of special guests on Monday, May 3, 5–7 p.m. (MT) to learn about a host of careers in the art world—artists, graphic designers, art educators, gallerists, museum professionals, and curators. This course will include a panel discussion and plenty of time for Q+A!

It’s time to repurpose those objects lying around your home to turn them into Marbled Monsters or Recycled Robots! Tune in today at 2:30 p.m. (MT) and we’ll teach you how to make marbled paper that bring yours to life “See” you then!

The second year of the Aspen Art Museum’s (AAM) Artist Fellowship program will conclude with four online project presentations by 2019–20 artist fellows Curt Carpenter, Marilyn Lowey, Lauren Peterson, and Teal Roberts Wilson on Thursday, May 14, 2020, at 5 p.m. via the online platform, Zoom. Each AAM fellow will present individual work and discuss their nine-month fellowship experience.

AAM exhibiting artist Oscar Murillo delves into the idea of being grounded as he spends time in his small hometown in the mountains of Colombia, finding sites of slowness and solitude in the local rural landscape. What is it like to be a global artist residing in a single location? Murillo looks to his flight # drawing series, often drafted on airplanes, in hotels, and other liminal spaces. Murillo asks viewers to consider what makes them feel present and, ultimately, liberated in this particular moment, one in which we may pause, reboot, and reset.