Join us for some cozy art-making in this Zoom workshop for adults! We will examine the work of a variety of women artists as we study color theory, paint and collage. This class is co-taught by Rachel (founder of MAPS!) and her wonderful mother, Pat Badt, who is a painter.

All proceeds from this workshop support MAPS’s outreach work with PS 172 and Newcomers Academy. PS 172 is a Title 1 Public School in Brooklyn. MAPS is teaching art workshops to ALL of the remote learning students, which is over 200 kids. Newcomer Academy is a Public School for migrant and refugee youths with no arts funding. MAPS is teaching all of the elementary school kids (K-6th grade) weekly remote art, reaching over 150 students a week! If you want to make a tax-deductible donation of any amount, please follow this link. Thanks for all the support!

Time:

8pm-9pm

Dates:

4/13, 4/27, 5/11, 5/25

Price:

$250 *3% service fee at checkout. If you want to avoid this fee, you can always pay by check :)

Materials:

For ease, links to ordering through Amazon are provided below. All of these materials can also be found at your local art store or at Dick Blick:

• bone folder + ruler set  (if you already have a ruler, you can use a spoon or a credit card in place of the bone folder)

• sharpie or any felt-tip black marker 

• Acryla Gouache Paint (we love the Arcyla Gouache made by Holbein)

  • Large set (if you want to more, this isn’t prime, Dick Blick also has this)

  • Small set (if you just want the basics)

  • You could also get the small set and a few extra individual colors of your choice.

• palette and brushes

• Watercolor paper sketchbook

• gluestick 

Things you need that you probably have around the house:

• pencil

• pencil sharpener

• paper towels

• jar for water

• scrap paper to work on

• assorted photos (magazine cutouts, family photos, recycling, paint swatches)

About the Teachers:

Pat Badt is a painter who also makes artist books. She has been the recipient of many awards and prizes including a National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting. She has exhibited in Brussels, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and places between. Her work is included in collections at the American Embassy in Riga, Latvia, the Ruth Hughes Collection of Artist Books at Oberlin College, Bryn Mawr College, University of Tennessee and the Allentown Art Museum.

Pat Badt's work is inspired by location, filtered through experience and sensibility. She lives in an old farmhouse along the Jordan creek, surrounded by apple orchards, low mountains and the convergence of two creeks. Her work is about process, the putting down of paint through the appropriate handwriting, color, texture and scale.

Pat Badt is Professor Emeritus at Cedar Crest College. She received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Rachel Sherk (MAPS founder) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in puppetry, experimental performance, video/sound art, and mixed media collage.  Her projects involve place, landscape, vegetation, created mythologies and story. She has created time-based works performed at traditional venues such as 14Y and The Brick Theater, along with making works shown in nontraditional spaces such as at Cornwall Manor Assisted Living Facility, gardens in Brooklyn and beyond, and in country barns in both Pennsylvania and Maine.  She has participated in artist residencies in Italy, Portugal and at the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska. Rachel has shown work both in the States and abroad.

Rachel's undergraduate degree is from Bennington College where she studied Visual Art, Literature and Sound.  She has an M.A. in Puppetry and Community Activism from NYU's Gallatin. Rachel taught preschool at Saint Ann's School from 2012-2018.  She was a teaching fellow at The Academy for Teachers in NYC in both 2016 and 2017 along with co-leading a story and arts-based workshop at the Little Chairs, Big Difference Diversity Conference.  Rachel and Aaron have been co-teaching Ukulele and Songwriting classes, previously hosted at Saint Ann’s School, since 2012. Before teaching at Saint Ann’s School Rachel was involved with The Little Red School House, Rivendell Montessori Preschool and St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s.  Rachel spends her free time thinking about puppets, playing with her rescue dog named Zeus, dreaming of forests, and sewing.