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Teen Ceramic Workshop with Maria Paz

Sunday, Jan 12, 2020 | 3–5pm

ADMISSION: This event is open to teens only. Free for teens; RSVP recommended at teens@thecjm.org.

Join us for a special teen workshop with Oakland-based artist Maria Paz, inspired by the exhibition Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped. This workshop begins in the galleries to view Rosen’s ceramic sculptures and works on paper. Then, in the studio, Paz will discuss her own work and lead a hands-on workshop in which you will learn a variety of tools and techniques for working with clay. Art supplies and refreshments will be provided. Bring a friend!

About the artist
Maria Paz
Maria Paz

Maria Paz is a self-taught Chilean sculptor living and working in Oakland, California. Her work explores the bond broken with her home country in addition to her experience of being raised as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. She is interested in the impact of being separated from one’s country and how that shapes immigrants and the dualities in their cultural identities. By painting visions of Chile and her ancestors, Paz seeks to reconcile and pay dues to her experience as a Latinx immigrant who doesn’t know her origins well but feels endlessly drawn to her home country. By painting and processing on clay, the end result is a collage of images that bluntly portray her personal history. Each piece tells a different story, often telling several, many of which are brightly colored in an homage to the palette of Latin America. Maria Paz currently works as a lab technician in the Ceramics Department at Fort Mason, San Francisco. She has shown internationally and her works have recently been exhibited at New Image Art (Los Angeles, CA), Pt. 2 Gallery (Oakland, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA) and Something Gallery (London, Britain).

Get Involved

Get involved with Teen Art Connect (TAC) at The CJM! The TAC internship is a year-long paid museum internship for high school students from diverse backgrounds interested in working in a world-class arts environment creating meaningful experiences for the public while developing professional skills.

TAC Squad provides teens with a deeper connection to the CJM through workshops, artist talks, screenings, special teen programs, and more while simultaneously exploring contemporary art, identity, and Jewish culture with a community of like-minded peers.

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accessibility

The CJM strives for a welcoming environment for all of our visitors. In addition to ample space for wheelchairs and a friendly environment for service animals, sign language interpretation (ASL) can be scheduled for all programs with at least two weeks notice.

FM assistive listening devices (ALDs) for sound enhancement are available for all talks and tours. Please note that we would like to maintain this as a scent-free environment, and encourage visitors to refrain from using scented products out of respect for visitors with allergies or chemical sensitivities. For additional accommodation requests, please contact The CJM’s Access and Community Engagement Manager at access@thecjm.org or 415.655.7856.

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About the Exhibition

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped is the first major survey of Annabeth Rosen (b. 1957 Brooklyn, NY), Robert Arneson Chair at UC Davis, and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

For over two decades, Rosen has interrogated the medium of ceramics in the context of contemporary art. Featuring ceramics and works on paper from over twenty years, this groundbreaking exhibition examines how Rosen’s work radically defies the limits of her primary medium, pushing it beyond spectacle and into conversations about contemporary painting, feminist theory, endurance-based performance, and conceptual art.

Sculpture composed of many colorful fragments of ceramics, bound together.

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo by Annabeth Rosen. Courtesy the artist.

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supporters

Teen Programs are made possible by major support from The Covenant Foundation and U.S. Bank Foundation. These programs are part of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative (Teen Initiative), a project of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, with support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and a consortium of local funders. Additional support is provided by the California Arts Council, Miranda Lux Foundation, and Ira A. Roschelle M.D. Family Foundation.