Mixed Media Collage Painting with Mikel Elam

Explore your creativity, open your senses and sharpen your mind to new realms of art-making with noted artist Mikel Elam.  Mikel will help you articulate your vision and bring it to concrete reality in the form of a finished work.  Explore techniques new and old with paint, paper, found objects and ephemera to best express both representational and abstract perspectives.  Channel ideas of progressive artists from the past and present including Henri Matisse, Romare Bearden, Cecily Brown, Joan Mitchell while finding your own voice. 

This class is held in conjunction with Color of Light, guest curated by Mikel Elam on view April 24 - May 19, 2024.

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Dates:  6 weeks, Thursdays, May 2 - June 6, 2024
Time:  10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 
Fee:  $250
Register by:  April 26 (space is limited)

** Sign up with a friend and receive 10% off both registrations.  Use discount code SP24Class1 at checkout. 

Mikel Elam is a visual artist working primarily as a painter. His work focuses on storytelling through memory and dreams using the fragments of face and figure to convey information and ideals about world culture.  Mikel attended the University of the Arts, Philadelphia where he received a Bachelor's degree in Studio Arts/Painting. He went on to study at School of the Visual Arts in New York City. Mikel's work has been featured in international publications and media. He also worked as an traveling assistant to Jazz musician Miles Davis, and assisted Mr. Davis in achieving his visual arts aspirations as a painter.