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ARTIST MAKERS COLLABORATION SERIES

Join the Maryland Art Education Association this winter as we host a series of collaboration-based workshops!  Teachers and artists will facilitate each upcoming workshop with presentations of their own work and parctices.  Attendees will be able to create personal and collaborative works in response to prompts designed by their artist / teacher.  Artworks and further investigations by participants in this professional development series will be displayed in an exhibit highlighting the process, planning, and works of art teachers develop at the 2017 MAEA Conference hosted by the Maryland Institute College of Art.  Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Patapsco High School and Center for Performing Arts - December 3rd COLLABORATION - SHARED MAKING Workshop - 10:00AM-1:00PM

Artists Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn are a Baltimore based artist team striving to transform public spaces into playful and vibrant experiences. The artist duo met while in college in 2001, forming a lasting, creative friendship and artistic collaboration.  

Since 2011, Jessie and Katey have been consistently creating large-scale, public murals. The all inclusive and socially engaging nature of creating art for the public is a driving force in their art making. Inspired by the architectural surfaces of each environment, their dynamic paintings often curve around corners and spill onto the ground. Their work explores themes of movement and symmetry, inspired by bold color combinations, patterns in nature, and woven textiles. Over the past two years the team has been exploring tradition batik, hand dyeing, and appliqué methods in their studio where they have created several large scale framed paintings. These painting have been exhibited in Brooklyn, Miami, and Baltimore.

Attendees will experience the artists ideas, processes, and working methods while engaging in creating a colorful COLLABORATION. 

Check out their work at http://www.jessieandkatey.com/