Thursday, Oct 5, 2017 • 4–6pm
ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission; youth 18 and under always free
Join us for a special Teen Art Open Studio with artist Julia Goodman. For Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, Goodman created a hanging installation that includes 18 suspended layers of handmade paper made from repurposed rags, old t-shirts, and bed sheets. Inspired by the final scene from the tale "The Bird of Happiness," which reveals a wise young king’s daily ritual of spending an hour inside of a shack, dressed in rags looking into a mirror reflecting his past guiding him to move his country into the future. Goodman creates a parallel space for viewers to reflect on time, humility, and leadership. In this Open Studio, you will learn about the history of rag paper and an introduction and experimentation with pulp painting and inclusions.
Free for teens. All supplies, snacks, and drinks provided. No registration required.
Julia Goodman is an artist and educator who works with humble and visceral materials to consider personal, political and ecological cycles. Goodman's work is currently being shown in exhibitions at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA) and Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN). Recent exhibitions include The Poetry Foundation (Chicago, IL), San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, and Center for Book Arts (New York, NY). Her residencies include the JB Blunk Residency (Inverness, CA), Recology SF (The Dump), Angelic Organics (a biodynamic CSA in Illinois) and the Salina Art Center (Salina, KS). Goodman received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University. For more information, see jagoodman.com.
Teen Programs are made possible by major support from the Koret Foundation and U.S. Bank Foundation, with additional generous support from the Ira A. Roschelle MD Family Foundation.