Visiting Artist: Thinking About the Environment Through Art with Mindy Flexer
Nov 15–16
Saturday, Sunday
/ 10am–5pm
Skill Level: All Levels
Age: Teen Friendly (14+), Teen Friendly (16+), Adult
What do you love about the natural world? What are your memories, hopes, and fears about it?
Join us to create art that explores these questions in any way meaningful to you—personal or political, abstract or representational. Workshops will be held from 10am-5pm, with a break from 1-2pm for lunch.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, we will use drawing, painting, and/or collage as our means of exploration with visiting artist Mindy Flexer. We will use a series of brainstorming exercises to get started, and you will get plenty of freedom and support to create a finished work or to start a longer project.
On Sunday, Nov. 16, will explore our thoughts and feelings about the world through textiles with both GoggleWorks teaching artist Sara Miller and visiting artist Mindy Flexer. Using slow, meditative fiber techniques like running stitch, raw edge applique, or embroidery, participants will create a piece in a wooden hoop—or a quilt square to stand alone or join a larger work.
No experience needed—everyone is welcome at one or both workshops. We look forward to creating together and sharing each person’s unique contributions. GoggleWorks will supply basic materials, and you are also free to bring any drawing, painting, and collage materials.
*Register for both sessions and receive $50.00 off. Use coupon code mindyfall25 at checkout.*
About the Artist
Mindy Flexer is a magical realist oil painter, a teaching artist, and a climate activist. She is in the long lineage of Philadelphia figure painters working in the space between observation and invention.
She has exhibited at Woodmere Art Museum, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art in City Hall, InLiquid Art + Design, and other venues. She teaches at her studio, the home of Mindy Flexer Art School, at residencies, and at Woodmere Art Museum, where she creates annual environmental installations with young artists. She has done activist projects with POWER Interfaith, Sunrise Movement, Indivisible and other organizations. She holds a BA from Oberlin College, a BFA from UArts, and an MEd in Art from Tyler. She has studied at PAFA and the Art Students League.
Mindy loves sharing her passion for art with people of all ages and walks of life, and believes in the power of art to transform people, communities, and the world.
