Starting Somewhere New: Drawing, Collage & Collaborative Play
with Lisa Walcott & Meridith Ridl
June 13, 3:00–6:00 p.m.
Tuition: $75
Materials Fee: TBD
In this process-based workshop, participants will use drawing and collage to inspire play, experimentation, and discovery, creating layered works through chance and collaboration. We will demonstrate energetic mark-making prompts, partner-based exchanges, and simple collage techniques for cutting, recombining, and reconfiguring drawings. The workshop will flow from quick drawing warm-ups into collaborative interventions and conclude with the construction of experimental collages from accumulated fragments.
Plan to bring: sketchbook or drawing pad, any preferred drawing tools, and small paper scraps or printed materials to incorporate. All other materials will be provided.
Location: Main Campus - 3435 Rupprecht Way, Saugatuck, MI 49453
Lisa Walcott (she/her) is a sculptor and installation artist whose work engages the poetics of everyday life through kinetic forms, object-based constructions, and drawing. Using familiar materials such as cords, bristles, insulation, shelf brackets, and fan motors, she explores domesticity, labor, and the feminine experience, often creating precarious, quietly humorous environments. Rooted in repetition and slow gestures, her work reveals the unseen tensions that underlie routines of care and maintenance. Walcott is an Associate Professor of Art at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. For over a decade, she has maintained an active national exhibition record, with more than 20 solo and two-person exhibitions at venues including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing; the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, and Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Michigan; ARC Gallery, Chicago; and Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati.
Meridith Ridl (she/her) is an artist and art teacher at Holland Public Schools in Michigan. Much of her work explores gestures (figurative and abstract) that suggest states of being—desire, silliness, revelation, disorientation—with compositions that often have a wobble, leave room for emptiness, press on through crowdedness, or “aren’t quite right.” Her work ranges from meditative and quiet to tipsy and quirky. She received her BA in Studio Art from the College of Wooster and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work is represented by LaFontsee Galleries, Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also works collaboratively with artist Lisa Walcott, and their work has most recently been shown at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts and the Holland Area Arts Council.
Images are from the collaborative practice of Meridith Ridl and Lisa Walcott. Lisa Walcott & Meridith Ridl "Trading Cards" ink, acrylic, graphite and pigment on paper 5x7. Courtesy of artist.
Walcott and Ridl--both hands working. Courtesy of artist.