Combining Text and Image, an experimental practice group with artists Liz Titone and Morgain Bailey.
Combining Text and Image, an experimental practice group with Liz Titone and Morgain Bailey.
Six Mondays: July 10, 17, 24, 31 and August 21, 28, 4:00-5:30 PM Eastern Time
Join artists Liz Titone and Morgain Bailey for a dynamic and experimental practice group this summer.
This six-week online group (limited to 8 members) will playfully combine text with images while working in the physical world with prints.
Liz and Morgain will offer five thought-provoking exercises, one per week, alongside short slideshows of examples from artists who have done work similar to the exercises. Participants can look forward to robust conversations about the creative process and helpful, friendly feedback on individual work. The last week, everyone will share the work they made over the course of the practice group.
Practice group members will be working with experimental text on physical prints and investigating our relationships to the natural and built environment. There will also be a focus on in-depth conversations about our creative practices and lots of encouragement to work in ways that create discomfort. Additionally, Liz and Morgain will offer a resource list of links to websites, books, podcasts and videos. Anyone is welcome to join us, at whatever skill level. We ask for enthusiasm and a commitment to attend all of the dates.
Cost: In order to make practice groups accessible to everyone, Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system. Please keep the average cost of a six-week group in mind ($150) and give as generously as you can. Honorariums for practice group leaders come entirely from registrants donations.
Requirements: Please learn/know how to share your screen in a Zoom environment on a desktop or laptop before the first meeting. Prepare a folder, pdf or slideshow with 20 images of your current work to share on the first day.
Facilitators:
Liz Titone’s currently serves on the faculty of the Packer Collegiate Institute as a studio art teacher, museum educator, and co-curator of the Carol Shen Gallery. Additionally, Liz formed the non-profit e2 education & environment to support global education and visual literacy.
Liz’s personal work is a place for reflection and experimentation. She takes her time in completing projects, lingering on the process. As both a creator and teacher, Liz has worked diligently to blend her interests and experiences, inspirations, and curiosities.
Liz has a BFA in photography from SUNY Purchase and an MSE from Bank Street College, specializing in place-based education and cross-cultural learning. She is a trained and extremely enthusiastic VTS practitioner and Narrative 4 facilitator.
Morgain Bailey (she/they) is an artist who lives in the far north of Maine. She grew up on the California coast and her working-class cultural roots are in the civil rights and back-to-the-land movements that developed around the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960's and 70's. Her ancestral roots are European settler-immigrants who mostly arrived in the northeastern United States during the 1800's. Her work is influenced by many creative people, with a focus on queer, Black feminist and indigenous artists and scholars. She is also inspired by color theory, eco-therapy and somatic healing practices.
She is an exhibiting artist, teaches photography workshops and accepts commissions for photography, painting and public art. She holds an interdisciplinary BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute, an ecotherapy certificate from the Pacifica Graduate Institute and has studied anti-racist museum curatorial practices with Dr. Kelli Morgan at Tufts University. A few of the places where her work has been seen include the Tacoma Art Museum, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Maine at Farmington, The Humid in Athens, Georgia and currently upstairs at Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Her work is held in various private collections.
Morgain Bailey
