COLA 2025 Public Program: Olivia Booth, Transparency Drawing Class

COLA 2025 – Design and Visual Arts Exhibition: Public Programs

Olivia Booth, Transparency Drawing Class

Saturday, August 16, 202512:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park

4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Free with RSVP

Limited free parking available on site

About the Workshop

Join LAMAG and COLA 2025 artist Olivia Booth for a hands-on, all-ages drawing class that explores the visual language of transparency. Rooted in Booth’s sculptural practice and her deep engagement with glass, this workshop invites participants to observe and translate light, layering, and translucency through drawing.

Glass is central to Booth’s work not just as a material, but as a process. The six primary “verbs” of glassmaking: slumping, blowing, torching, fusing, pulling, and casting—inform her approach to perception and transformation. These ideas serve as a conceptual backdrop for the workshop, which focuses on the act of seeing through, reflecting upon, and obscuring surfaces.

Participants will be guided through three short drawing exercises, each designed to explore a different way of representing transparency. Using a range of materials and approaches, these exercises encourage careful observation, slow looking, and mark-making as a form of meditation.

All materials will be provided.Open to all skill levels.

About the Artist

Olivia Booth has lived and worked as a teacher and artist for over two decades in Los Angeles. She is a recent recipient of the COLA-IMAP Grant 2024 from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Hopper Prize, and in recent years her work could be seen at the Neutra VDL House, Monte Vista Projects and Irenic Projects, LA, UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, Goldfinch Gallery in Chicago, and Pilchuck Gallery in Seattle. Over the years her work has been shown at non-profit spaces like SculptureCenter, LAMOA,The Finley Gallery and The Schindler House, in addition to other exhibition spaces, and has been written about in Art Forum and the New York Times. She received her MFA from Artcenter College of Design, Los Angeles (2003), and her BFA and BA from Cornell University (1996). 

Accessibility

As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. To arrange accommodations, please contact bGFtYWcgfCBsYWNpdHkgISBvcmc= or call (323) 644-6269.

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