@ Night Under Expressway,2007 Watercolor and Collage, 8″ x 8″ Courtesy of Caldbeck Gallery This class meets weekly for four weeks on zoom; all classes are recorded and available for repeated viewing. This class is eligible for access rates. In this hands-on collage making class, you’ll transform your own drawings and paintings into vibrant collage artworks while discovering how artists throughout history have approached similar ideas. Through the course of this four week class you’ll learn how to simplify forms, explore abstraction, and see your everyday subjects in completely new ways. Together, we’ll draw fresh ideas from the Farnsworth’s collection and beyond by looking at how artists like David Driskell, Alex Katz, and John Marin distill the world around them into expressive shapes and compositions. You’ll create line drawings, cut your own shapes, and build layered collages influenced by everything from Louise Nevelson’s sculptural abstraction to Hector Nevarez Núñez’s bold photomontage techniques. Throughout the workshop, you’ll experiment with a variety of materials and approaches, gaining practical techniques for weaving collage into your personal art practice. Each session includes supportive individual guidance and energizing group critiques, helping you grow your skills, stretch your creativity, and walk away with artwork that feels fresh, personal, and deeply informed by the larger art world. Elizabeth O’Reilly received her BEd from The National University of Ireland and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She has participated in residencies at the Ballinglen Foundation, Ireland; the UCROSS Foundation, Wyoming; and the Ragdale Foundation, Illinois. O’Reilly has received numerous awards including a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, a Charles G. Shaw award for painting and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. She taught an outdoor landscape class at The New School for Social Research for many years and has taught extensively at colleges in New York City, including Parsons School of Design, Brooklyn College, and Pratt Institute. She also taught watercolor and collage at The National Academy School. She currently teaches at The New York School of the Arts in New York City, and out of her studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. O’Reilly shows at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea, New York and had a solo show in 2022. She showed at the Caldbeck gallery in Rockland, in the summer of 2020 with Lois Dodd. Her work has been reviewed in Art In America, The New York Sun and Art News. A documentary on her work, Ealaiontoir Thar Saile (An Artist Abroad) was shown on network TV in Ireland. O’Reilly’s work is found in many corporate and public collections, including the State Department, Washington D.C.; The Office of Public Works, Ireland; the Memphis Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; and the Ogunquit Museum in Maine. Cost: $270; $240 for members. Access rates available. To ensure the program can run as planned, a minimum of 6 parti...
