Service Description

Adult Series: Layers of Memory: Painting, Collage, and Storytelling Age 18+ Series: Thursdays June 11 & June 18 (Price includes both workshops) 6:00pm-8:00pm In this workshop series with Lisa DeAbreu, Artist-in-Residence we will spend time thinking about collecting, archiving, and preserving histories. We will create a mixed-media work combining family imagery through photo transfer, paint, fabric, and sentimental words to hold onto. About the Instructor: Lisa DeAbreu, June Artist-in-Residence New York & Family Ties to St. Croix Lisa DeAbreu is a visual artist and educator from New York. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts and an Art History and Education Minor at the University at Buffalo. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, She completed a Post Baccalaureate Certificate and completed her Masters in Fine Art and Studio in Painting and Drawing. Lisa combines symbolism, iconography from Caribbean culture, and personal family stories to intertwine nostalgic emotions and diasporic histories. Lisa’s unique artistic vision is articulated through the exploration of identity with an intervention of lived material. Lisa’s pieces delve into the intersections of personal narrative and cultural heritage, using sentimental objects of home to evoke profound themes of existence and transformation. She has shown her work at the University at Buffalo Student Union, Silo City Buffalo NY, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts Project Space. School of the Art Institute of Chicago CAPX Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Incubator Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, University of Chicago Logan Center, Art City Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Wellness Center, The Plan Chicago, Evoke Chicago, FLXST Contemporary Gallery, Layr Gallery in Vienna, Austria, Howling Pages Comics Chicago IL and Hyde Park Art Center Chicago IL.