Join VMFA Instructor Alexandria Searls on Saturday, July 26th from 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM for a VMFA Special Workshop at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs!
A walking artist creates the experience of a walk and then materializes that experience in text, photography, film, or a design. The walk can be short or long, fast or extremely slow, in a pattern or in a straight line. The walk can be along an established path or through fields and woods without a path. The walk can be along city streets or out in nature or in a combination of the two. The walk for this particular workshop will take place along the beautiful gardens at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs.
This workshop will introduce you to walking art, its history and its practice. First, you’ll watch a presentation of videos about the walking artists Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, and Cardiff & Miller. Then we’ll head out to explore the gardens for our walking art piece. Together, we’ll decide on the design of our walk, taking the history of the area into consideration, as well as the sights and sounds. We’ll choose our methods of materializing our walk. We can film or photograph during our walk, or we can walk and then return to do the documentation.
The highpoint of the day will be doing the walk itself, claiming our path and our interaction with the land.
Finally, we can each write text or paint a design reflecting our walk. With Adobe Premiere, we can cut together a video that shows our walking art.
The first part of this workshop will take place at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs. We will then break for lunch and meet back at Arts on Main to complete the video. All supplies will be provided by the instructor. It is suggested to bring your own camera/phone with a camera, but the instructor will have cameras to borrow. Bring your friends and come join in on this special workshop!
FOR AGES 14+
This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund.
$25/per student
SIGN UP HERE:
https://www.gloucesterartsonmain.org/events/what-is-a-walking-artist
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