New Workshops: Women, Philosophy, and Nature

Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955. Oil on canvas, 203,5 x 203,5 cm. Courtesy: Chicago Art Institute

The Women in Art workshop addresses the different roles women have in the art world, showing that their presence is as strong as it is forgotten through history. Through the analysis of specific cases such as those of Artemisia Gentilleschi, Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, and Mary Cassatt—as well as modern artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama—in an encompassing artistic context including museums, schools, and galleries, this workshop investigates how women have asserted themselves in a predominantly male professional setting and what challenges they still face to remain active, either as artists, curators, critics, or art institutions’ managers.

            Women in Art takes place on Mondays, at 3:00 pm, starting on March 23th, on Zoom. This is my first online course, and I so glad that I have plenty of students!

            For those who are interested in a more speculative workshop, Philosophy in Contemporary Art is a good choice. The workshop is based on the concepts of existence and transcendence in the phenomenology and idealism fields. These concepts are the starting point to investigate the work of artists such as Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer, Louise Bourgeois, James Turrell, and Olafur Eliasson, among other great names in international contemporary art. The workshop comprises fourteen sessions, each one devoted to a different artist. Online classes take place on Thursdays, at 10:30 am, starting on April 9th on Zoom. This workshop is hosted by the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, and the first class will be fully accessible at MAM's channel on YouTube from April 2nd on. Registration through the MAM website.

            Also in April, a new online workshop. Art and Nature will present the diversity of relationships that artists develop with nature, either as raw material, as instrument of their strengths, or even as mere recipients for their energy. The workshop will include eight sessions on Wednesdays, at 5 pm, on Zoom, from April 15th on.. Everyone is welcome! Information and registration here.