Museum Mondays! studio visit with Chris Ware, cartoonist/illustrator

For Museum Mondays, we will spend time with cartoonist and illustrator, Chris Ware. Known for his New Yorker magazine covers, Chris Ware is hailed as a master of the comic art form. His complex graphic novels tell stories about people in suburban Midwestern neighborhoods, poignantly reflecting on the role memory plays in constructing identity. Stories featuring many of Ware’s protagonists—Quimby the Mouse, Rusty Brown, and Jimmy Corrigan—often first appear in serialized form, in publications such as The New York Times, the Guardian, or Ware’s own ongoing comic book series Acme Novelty Library, before being organized into their own stand-alone books.

Between the hours of 1-2 pm. on Wednesday, Mr. Coffin will host an open discussion on the work and process of Chris Ware, the importance of Books in a digital age, and the importance of the graphic novel. Link to the discussion will be posted in Google Classroom.

Flip Grid Fridays! - Optical Illusion Challenge

Ms. Carey and Ms. Amorosa have posted their new Friday Flip Grid - the Optical Illusion Challenge!

https://flipgrid.com/ehsart

Museum Mondays! Studio Visit with Leonardo Drew, sculptor

This week “Museum Mondays!” features a visit to the studio of sculptor, Leonardo Drew. Click on image for access to his Art 21 feature page. Join us on Wednesday in Google Meet, for an open discussion starting at 1:00 pm. Details to be announced in Google Classroom. Join us as we discuss found objects, personal history, culture, and science’s role in art making.

Leonardo Drew was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1961, and grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Although often mistaken for accumulations of found objects, his sculptures are instead made of “brand new stuff”—materials such as wood, rusted iron, cotton, paper, and mud—that he intentionally subjects to processes of weathering, burning, oxidation, and decay. Whether jutting out from a wall or traversing rooms as freestanding installations, his pieces challenge the architecture of the space in which they’re shown.

Memories of his childhood surroundings—from the housing project where he lived to the adjacent landfill—resurface in the intricate grids and configurations of many of his pieces. Never content with work that comes easily, Drew constantly reaches beyond “what’s comfortable” and charts a course of daily investigation, never knowing what the work will be about but letting it find its way, and asking, “What if….”

"FLIP GRID FRIDAYS!"

Art Teachers, Ms. Carey and Ms. Amorosa have created "Flip Grid" Fridays! This week... they have an origami challenge! If you're bored... or inspired, GIVE IT A SHOT! Click here: https://flipgrid.com/ehsart

Museum Mondays! Studio Visit with painter, Elizabeth Murray

Please join us for our first virtual studio tour/museum visit with painter, Elizabeth Murray. Click image to access tour.

Instructions: Please view “Elizabeth Murray: in Humor” … When finished, view “Bop.”

Please join members of the Edgemont Jr/Sr High School Art Department for an open discussion on the work of Elizabeth Murray to be announced on your Google Classroom pages. The first open discussion will be on Wednesday 4/29 at 1:00 pm. in Mr. Coffin’s Google Meet. Be on the lookout for the link! Come prepared with your questions and comments…

A pioneer in painting, Elizabeth Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray’s paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects. Breathing life into domestic subject matter, Murray’s paintings often include images of cups, drawers, utensils, chairs, and tables. These familiar objects are matched with cartoonish fingers and floating eyeballs—macabre images that are as nightmarish as they are goofy. Taken as a whole, Murray’s paintings are abstract compositions rendered in bold colors and multiple layers of paint, but the details of the paintings reveal a fascination with dream states and the psychological underbelly of domestic life.

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