Get Involved - March 2009 Guest Artist Residency

Artist Annie Morgan to present Guest Artist Residency, March 21-22
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
McArdle Theatre - 207 Walker

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SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 19 Friday, March 20	Free public lecture demonstrations in McArdle Theatre 2:00-4:00 pm and 7:00-9:00 pm 10:00 am-12:00 pm and 2:00-4:00 pm
Saturday, March 21 Sunday, March 22	2-day workshop for artists in McArdle Theatre 9:30 am - 4:00 pm 9:30 am - 4:00 pm Supply List: Pigments, Paper, Brushes, More

Annie Morgan, NWS, NCS, ISEA, will present the 2009 Guest Artist Residency at Michigan Tech on March 21-22. Annie’s topic will be “Stretching the Limits with Painting and Collage.” The residency features eight hours of free, public lecture-demonstrations designed for a general audience, and a two-day workshop for artists. Michigan Tech students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.

Events will be held in McArdle Theatre, 207 Walker. The Guest Artist Residency brings nationally and internationally known artists in diverse media to campus each year, and is coordinated by Mary Ann Beckwith (Professor, Visual & Performing Arts).

"The Guest Artist Residency brings outstanding artists in many different media to the Copper Country to share their energy and their insights with all of us—not just Michigan Tech's students and staff, but the whole community," Beckwith says. "We hope everyone will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to see a great Michigan artist in action," Beckwith adds. "Her work and her teaching are truly accessible to everyone, and transformative."

Annie is energy-filled and a truly inspiring teacher. Her work has been featured in American Artist Watercolor Magazine Spring 2005. Her workshop will focus on bringing your artwork to the next level. She will cover the image transfer process of collage and painting techniques. She will teach how to incorporate unusual papers and old paintings or drawings into new, creative explorations of collage.

The workshop is limited to 20 participants, and has a fee of $180; pre-registration is required.

Annie Morgan Biography

Nationally recognized artist Annie Morgan is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, The National Collage Society, The International Society Of Experimental Artists, and The Society Of Layerists In Multi-Media.

Annie Morgan's current award-winning work involves innovative techniques which combine watercolor and collage. Originally a professional metalsmith and jewelry designer, Morgan has studied at Kendall College of Art and Design and The Art Institute of Chicago-Oxbow. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe, most recently in the traveling show of the National Watercolor Society. She won the coveted "Gracie Award" for best of show from the International Society of Experimental Artists.

"Morgan's work is at once simple and complicated, strong and vulnerable, modern and historical," Catie Crabtree wrote in "Assembling the Sunrise," in Water Color Magazine. "She weaves a certain intimacy into her art that encourages discovery, disclosure, and revelation." A renown teacher, Morgan's busy schedule includes workshops in her studio in Grand Haven, Michigan, and throughout the U.S.

Stretching the Limits with Collage

with Annie Morgan

Supply List: Pigments, Paper, Brushes, More

This workshop will emphasize creative experimentation with a variety of innovative collage techniques. Participants will learn to combine a wide range of media, such as oil pastel, encaustic, photo-collograph printing, transfer techniques and the use of hand-dyed papers. Students are encouraged to explore the use of photo, hand drawn, found and collage imagery to create new elements in their paintings. During the course of the workshop we will explore textural effects, layering of color, alternative surfaces and the importance of individual expression. All of these processes are also helpful in re-structuring and finishing unresolved paintings. Various approaches to these processes will be shown in class through demonstrations, pictures, slides and original artwork. The last half of the final day will be reserved for a classroom critique. Annie is an enthusiastic instructor. Always filled, her workshops are upbeat, fun and informative.