Free for Members, $5 per Non-Members
Pre-registration is required. Registration is limited. Registration will open two weeks prior to each monthly session.
Each month, participants will be introduced to one of the Museum’s exhibitions in a fun and interactive way. ArtLabs are led by professional artists and art educators who will engage participants of all ages and skills in their own unique experience relating to an exhibition on display in the Museum.
VIRTUAL LABS: These labs will take place in a virtual classroom accessed from the comfort of your own home through Zoom. Students will enjoy an online learning environment with the instructor and their fellow classmates for live engagement, interaction, and access to additional resources. Links to download the Zoom program and to attend class meetings will be provided to each student for easy access.
La Musa Piensa en el Amor, 2020, #1/12, photogravure.
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Those Who Dance with Josephine Sacabo (Virtual Lab)
Lab starts at 10:30am
Free for Members, $5 per Non-Members
Pre-registration is required.
Join Josephine Sacabo virtually in an open conversation about her current exhibition “Those Who Dance”. Join her from her home in New Orleans as she shares what inspires her work and the goals she hopes to achieve.
During the lab, participants will be encouraged to reflect, ask questions, and share what they see and feel in the work, a conversation Josephine finds invaluable as an artist and hopes you will too.
Josephine Sacabo divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both places inform her work, resulting in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal, and romantic as the places that she calls home. Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, she was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to coming to New Orleans, Sacabo lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photo-journalistic tradition and influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspective style, using poetry as the genesis for her work.
Sacabo’s many portfolios are visual manifestations of the written word, and she lists poets as her most important influences, including Rilke, Baudelaire, Pedro Salinas, Vicente Huidobro, Juan Rulfo, Mallarmé, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Her images transfer the viewer into a world of constructed beauty.
During her 36-year career her work has been featured in over 40 gallery and museum exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Mexico. She has been the recipient of multiple awards and is included in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, New Orleans Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and la Bibliothéque Nationale.
QUESTIONS: If you have any questions, please email EChastain@PolkMuseumofArt.org.