2025 Summer Workshop Program
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$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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This workshop will focus on how to understand the way our bodies relate to the world through touch, through image, and through material instincts. It will use the history of collage, assemblage and decollage as a way of imagining new configurations of the self. We will be exploring method and meaning in art making, the role of experimentation and failure, and the translation of experience into artwork. We will learn about historic and contemporary artists that explore the body through its own unraveling. Students will gather, build, excavate, and translate, exploring how these gestures can help us create new paths. We will lean into our leaky boundaries and through the monstrous, look beyond what is and into what can be.
Please note: there will be one day of overlap with writer Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Monstrous Body” workshop, which will be running simultaneously. On that day, both classes will be doing a mix of written and visual prompts in a shared space. No writing experience necessary!
SP25-Ilana-Savdie-Materials-List.pdfBiography
Ilana Savdie received an MFA from the Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Radical Contractions at The Whitney Museum of American Art (2023), In Jest at White Cube, London (2022); and Entrañadas at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (2021). Savdie’s work is represented in prominent collections, including Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Jewish Museum in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
