Aspen Art Museum

AAM exhibiting artist Abraham Cruzvillegas recently remarked that “slowing down is much more work than I imagined!” For many of us, this period is marked by new modes of efficiency and ingenuity which call into question our previously unquestioned processes of creative production. Cruzvillegas has spent much of his time in quarantine in his apartment in Paris, a city with a historical relationship to enclosure. He has since relocated to the French countryside, where he discusses how his daily life as an artist has shifted, how he has set new patterns, and what he has learned so far.

As an artist, how can one find a place for themselves when the dominant narrative sometimes diverges from their experience and values? How can one make the structure of critique useful? Breaking down the idea of the monolithic voice, especially as it relates to art, is an important part of Brooklyn-based artist and arts professor Damien Davis’s practice.

Let’s get together to explore a super creative and experimental form of printmaking called Collagraphy!

A collagraph is a type of print made from a textured collage or relief. They are easy to make because you can use interesting materials and common items found around your home. Collagraphs are one-of-a-kind works of art, and the results are always surprising.

For this week’s Art Studio Live!, we will recycle egg cartons and repurpose them to make cute animal friends! Please join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) to make adorable turtles, ladybugs, and caterpillars!

Join us at 4 p.m. (MT) as we welcome dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist Andros Zins-Browne to help us reflect on the need to rethink death in our lives at this moment, and elaborate on his own experiences of recognizing his limits as an artist and of art making itself right now. The talk will also include a reading of several texts that have resonated with him during quarantine and his consideration of the revolutionary potentials of trying to learn from worms.

In this week’s Art Studio Live!, learn how to create simple masks with tons of personality. Please join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) to cut, bend, and shape one paper plate into a 3-dimensional face that is sure to impress friends and family.

Blake Paskal is an artist, educator, and Visual Aids Program Associate based in Brooklyn, New York. For this Slow.Look.Live session, Paskal will speak about their experience as a queer Black person watching the conversation shift over the past few months as people take to the streets in protest. They will also speak about the way that touch, intimacy, and bodily comfort manifest in their artistic practice.

Hallam Lake serves as the magical backdrop for imagination, play and the creation of art through a variety of mediums. The Aspen Art Museum and Aspen Center for Environmental Studies are excited to announce their collaborative Summer Workshops for kids entering Kindergarten in Fall 2021! We will be offering four workshops during the month of July, centered around all things nature and art. Participants will learn about bugs, trees, animals and flowers, and create artwork based on inspiration from each theme! Nature lends itself to fun and games and the opportunity to create playful art.

Do you love creating functional artwork that you can play with as a toy?! Did you participate in one of the first Art Studio Live! classes when we made marionette puppets? Join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) to create new GIANT puppets out of paper bags!

Artist Lena Henke will speak about her decision to relocate from New York to Berlin this past month, and the stark contrast in the cultural and behavioral response to the pandemic in each location. She will reflect on the ways that the pandemic has altered the landscape of the global art world, as travel slows and time takes on new meaning. The artist will also speak about the interconnectedness of the personal and the professional, and will show printouts of recent sculptural works that delve into introspective themes.