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  • May 22, 2020

    • AAM Educator and artist Teresa Booth Brown creates abstract geometric collages. Her presentation will invoke meditative experiences to lead viewers through a guided looking experience—focusing first on a single spot within a composition, then outward to explore a wider perspective. Booth Brown will also discuss her artistic practice with emphasis on her influences and recent projects.

  • May 24, 2020

    • Join the AAM and our special guests on Monday, May 24, from 5–6:30 p.m. (MT) for an informal portfolio review. In this session, you will be able to apply all the new knowledge you’ve gained from the Art School Prep series and discuss five artwork submissions of your choice. Spaces are very limited, so please apply soon.

  • May 27, 2020

    • Join our AAM School, Youth, & Family Programs Manager, Elisabeth, and her niece, Anya, on Instagram Live for Art Studio Live!, to learn how to make your own papier-mâché masks. A good and messy time is sure to be had by all!

  • May 29, 2020

    • AAM exhibiting artist Abraham Cruzvillegas recently remarked that “slowing down is much more work than I imagined!” For many of us, this period is marked by new modes of efficiency and ingenuity which call into question our previously unquestioned processes of creative production. Cruzvillegas has spent much of his time in quarantine in his apartment in Paris, a city with a historical relationship to enclosure. He has since relocated to the French countryside, where he discusses how his daily life as an artist has shifted, how he has set new patterns, and what he has learned so far.

  • Jun 12, 2020

    • As an artist, how can one find a place for themselves when the dominant narrative sometimes diverges from their experience and values? How can one make the structure of critique useful? Breaking down the idea of the monolithic voice, especially as it relates to art, is an important part of Brooklyn-based artist and arts professor Damien Davis’s practice.

  • Jun 17, 2020

    • Let’s get together to explore a super creative and experimental form of printmaking called Collagraphy!

      A collagraph is a type of print made from a textured collage or relief. They are easy to make because you can use interesting materials and common items found around your home. Collagraphs are one-of-a-kind works of art, and the results are always surprising.

  • Jun 24, 2020

    • For this week’s Art Studio Live!, we will recycle egg cartons and repurpose them to make cute animal friends! Please join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) to make adorable turtles, ladybugs, and caterpillars!

  • Jun 26, 2020

    • 4 PM Slow. Look. Live.

      Slow.Look.Live. Andros Zins-Browne

      Join us at 4 p.m. (MT) as we welcome dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist Andros Zins-Browne to help us reflect on the need to rethink death in our lives at this moment, and elaborate on his own experiences of recognizing his limits as an artist and of art making itself right now. The talk will also include a reading of several texts that have resonated with him during quarantine and his consideration of the revolutionary potentials of trying to learn from worms.

  • Jul 1, 2020

    • In this week’s Art Studio Live!, learn how to create simple masks with tons of personality. Please join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) to cut, bend, and shape one paper plate into a 3-dimensional face that is sure to impress friends and family.

  • Jul 3, 2020

    • 4 PM Slow. Look. Live.

      Slow.Look.Live. Blake Paskal

      Blake Paskal is an artist, educator, and Visual Aids Program Associate based in Brooklyn, New York. For this Slow.Look.Live session, Paskal will speak about their experience as a queer Black person watching the conversation shift over the past few months as people take to the streets in protest. They will also speak about the way that touch, intimacy, and bodily comfort manifest in their artistic practice.