Through a windsock making workshop artist in residence Nina Elder will lead us in an exploration of what invisible forces we live with. Windsocks make the wind visible! Together, we will become amateur geologists, speculative meteorologists, and creative experts through our personal experience of landscape. This will be an opportunity to play, explore, move, and see the air around us in entirely new ways. At the end of the workshop, we will go to Esther Simplot Park to unfurl our windsocks, and experiment with Nina's sculptural wind tools.
Ages 12 & up
Materials provided
Partial scholarships available by request to
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BIOGRAPHY
Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates deep time perspectives where planets, geology, and ecosystems are in constellation with social issues and personal narratives. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. Her work takes many forms, including drawings, murals, performance, pedagogy, and long term community-based projects.
As a renowned public speaker, Nina's talks have been hosted by museums and organizations around the world. Recent solo exhibitions of Nina’s art have been organized by SITE Santa Fe, Indianapolis Contemporary, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and university museums across the US. Her work has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, Hyperallergic, and on PBS. Her writing has been published by Routledge Press, American Scientist, and Edge Effects Journal. Nina’s research has been supported by the Warhol Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.
Nina Elder has a MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA in Painting from the University of New Mexico. She had been living on the road and traveling for projects for the past decade.
Nina will also have an Open Studio/Art Talk at Surel's Place on Thursday, May 22nd from 7pm -8:30pm
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