Creative Corner – Recycled Magazine Art

Join us in-person at the Children & Youth Library on Fridays at 3:00 PM. Get creative and make your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards ages 13 years and up.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

August 5th at 3:00 PM

Shred your old magazines to create colorful animal art.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Workshop: You Call That a Comic?

Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Thursday, May 27th at 5:00 p.m. for a creative workshop featuring the artists of 7000 BC who explore the difference between plot and theme as we create book-like objects designed to appropriately contain your story.

7000 BC is a New Mexico-based organization providing opportunities for comic writers and artists to develop their personal styles and storytelling voices. They promote an understanding of the cultural significance of comic art through seminars and workshops. Sol Arts DBA 7000 BC is a 501(c)3 non-profit visual arts learning collaborative.

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Workshop: Creating ‘Moxie’ Inspired Zines

Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Friday, May 14th at 4:00 p.m. for a creative workshop featuring Youth Services Librarian, Anne Price.

Netflix film Moxie, based on the novel of the same name, is about a teenager who begins publishing an anonymous zine calling out sexist behaviors in her high school. Zines are the ultimate in punk rock publishing. With pen, paper, and a Xerox machine, you too can be a zinester. Join us for this hands-on workshop and learn the history of zines.

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Creative Corner – Collage 101 w/ Found Materials

Creative Corner features creativity freedom to make their own art from various materials that can be found around their homes and/or are inexpensive to purchase. Art courses are for the inner creative geared towards individuals 15 years of age and older.

Tune in this upcoming Monday, June 13th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration on collaging with paper materials that can be found around your home. Use old magazines, photographs, books, glue, markers, paint, and more. Available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel, search @galluplibrary.

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Collage Definition

Collage is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

5 Contemporary Collage Artists Adding New Layers

  1. Laslo Antal’s Collage – Visual Diaries
  2. Lance Letscher’s Collage – The Pull Towards Collage
  3. Raquel van Haver’s Collage – The Collage Mindset
  4. Vanessa German’s Collage – From Found Objects Towards Assemblage
  5. Wangechi Mutu’s Collage – Female Motives

View the full article HERE.


Artist Spotlight

Joshua M. Whitman

@artisan_josh23

Collage. Recycled Books, gold foil, and white ink. 11 inches by 17 inches. Circa. 2020 (Right).

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Courtesy of Joshua M. Whitman.
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