Read Rachel’s last post in her series on teaching art workshops in Pakistan here. You can follow her on Twitter @EducatorRachel and also on Instagram.
Talented teenagers as far as the eye could see at today’s workshop! Photos: Rachel Goldberg
Rachel Goldberg, Manager of School, Outreach, and Family Programs
Read Rachel’s first post in her series about teaching art workshops in Pakistan here. You can follow her on Twitter @EducatorRachel and also on Instagram.
Art students in Lahore respond to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. Photos: Rachel Goldberg
Yesterday I facilitated the first in a series of workshops I’ll be doing here in Lahore. I introduced a group of 50 art students from four local universities to Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940-1941), and we discussed how art can be a vehicle for telling stories and creating social change. I challenged the artists to choose one of Lawrence’s panels (I brought life-sized color reproductions with me) and to create their own work in response to it. Students used very basic materials (tempera paint, pencils, and paper collage materials) to create some spectacular art!
Working with the U.S. Department of State, I’ll lead two-day intensive workshops in Lahore and Islamabad for 100 emerging artists from across Pakistan. I’ll also conduct workshops and discussions with curators, gallery owners, and arts educators to further build capacity for artistic endeavors in Pakistan.
Rachel Goldberg, Manager of School, Outreach, and Family Programs
We have been eager to see Aimé Mpane’s Mapasa (Twins) hanging in the galleries ever since bringing it home from (e)merge art fair this fall. Mpane’s brilliantly hued diptych is now on view upstairs in the original Phillips house, where it sparks a complex dialogue with Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series.
(left) Aimé Mpane, Mapasa (Twins), 2012. Acrylic and mixed media on two wooden panels, each panel: 12 1/2 in x 12 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Acquired with The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Award, 2012. (right) Panels from Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series, 1940-41. Photo: Joshua Navarro
A closer view of Mpane’s work.
