The following online course will be offered as part of the New York State Creative Aging Initiative. The Essex County Office for the Aging will communicate registration details to the older adults in their county.
Mapping a Life in Collage
Offered by:
Essex County Office for the Aging
When:
6 Thursdays, August 10-September 14, 2021, from 10:00am-11:30am ET
Where:
Online via Zoom
What if you could document your life in pictures? What kind of stories would they tell? What would influence those stories? The workshop, “Mapping a Life in Collage,” will provide participants the opportunity to gain new tools for self expression and develop new frameworks for sharing and interpreting their experiences through collage.
During this 6-week workshop, Ann deVere, the instructor, will teach participants how to use recycled materials to piece together pictures capturing their life stories and explore how images can communicate ideas. They will look at the work of various collage artists for insight and inspiration. The workshop will wrap up with a culminating event showcasing their work.
About the instructor
Ann deVere is a veteran teaching artist and design educator, professionally trained and educated as an architect with a visual arts concentration in printmaking. She has taught classes and workshops in public schools, cultural centers and arts organizations throughout NYC, in addition to implementing arts programming for all ages.
Ann has worked with the High Line, Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Art Center, FDR Four Freedoms Park and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) among others. Her awards include several MacDowell Colony Printmaking Fellowships, a Ralph Fabri printmaking scholarship from the National Academy School of Fine Arts and numerous LMCC “SU CASA” teaching artist residencies. Degreed in architecture from Pratt Institute, Ann employs both the applied and fine arts to engage students in critical discourse, concept development and creative problem solving — all the while drawing upon their imaginations.
Made possible by
This program, part of the New York State Creative Aging Initiative, is made possible through a partnership between the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Office for the Aging and Lifetime Arts. The project takes an innovative, evidence-based approach to healthy aging, underscoring New York’s leadership as the first age-friendly state in the nation.
