ONLINE: Shapeshifting: Multi-Media Collage
Adult Multi-Week | Available
Experiment with multimedia materials like photographs, magazine, fabrics, objects, paint, etc to create collages. Each collage will become another collage week-by-week to tell an ongoing story. Collages can be turned into digital or physical books or a series of work to tell the story. The main theme in each story will be: How do we evolve over time? How does our surroundings shift day to day? The length or your hair or the weather, the color of the sky and the leaves falling. Use collage to show the shifts that stand out in the world around you. How do you shapeshift the world around you?
- Students can use any materials like paper, fabric, canvases, paints, magazines, photographs, or any objects from home they would like to incorporate.
Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
This class is held online through Zoom; learn more about how online classes work here
This instructor speaks Spanish, but class is held in English.
Amarise Deán Santo
Amarise Deán Santo is a photo based artist and builder. He utilizes photography to observe andallow the land to become tangible. The results are images that harness history, ancestry, altars and still lifes that are alive. The intuitive aspect is referential directly to a gentle and deeply personal connection to passed down knowledge of their elders from the island, Puerto Rico. Each object breathes together. Upon inspection and study, each detail narrates a space that invites the body; trans, queer, and diasporic, to enter. These images document survival while serving as a means to build new worlds the body can be fully liberated in. Piecing together life cycles that directly come from the land their family derives from, becomes a simultaneous practice of honoring their 2spirit body which has existed and will for futures to come.
Deán received their BFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018. They are based in Flushing, Queens, New York and Richmond, Virginia. They have been published in The New Yorker, Aperture Magazine, Nueva Luz, and has shown at El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of New York, and The Center.