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Studio Session

  • Community members enjoyed an evening in the galleries and then in the studio during a Studio Session in February 2024.

    LEFT Community members enjoyed an evening in the galleries and then in the studio during a Studio Session in February 2024. Photo by Rob Strong.

  • Community members enjoyed an evening in the galleries as Neely McNulty taught and discussed artist Larissa Bates "Grooming after Mexican Biombo 17th Century" in February 2024.

    LEFT Community members enjoyed an evening in the galleries as Neely McNulty taught and discussed artist Larissa Bates' Grooming after Mexican Biombo 17th Century in February 2024. Photo by Rob Strong. 
     

NEELY MCNULTY
Hood Foundation Curator of Education 
Hood Quarterly, summer 2024

Talking about art, making art in the studio, and meeting new people is an excellent way to spend a freezing cold Thursday evening. Our Studio Session public program series is designed to do just that: bring community members together for a stimulating evening in the gallery and in the studio. 

Held in conjunction with Gilding: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, a late winter Studio Session began with an exploration of the different ways contemporary artists use gilding as a means of reconsidering our value systems. We looked carefully at a handful of works and spent time sketching and taking note of the physical qualities of gilding, the impact gilding has on how we engage with each piece, and the variety of materials artists employ. 

All of this close looking gave us plenty of ideas for making. People could use gouache and student-grade gilding materials to make a 2D work inspired by Larissa Bates, whose work we had talked about in depth. Some group members brought personal items from home to gild, including a golf ball, shells, rocks, metal boxes, a 3D printed puzzle part, and books with linen covers, all in need of a little gold lift. One member wrapped gold around a transparent cat-shaped jar, intentionally leaving a section uncovered so she could see inside the cat whiskers she had collected. Why not? 

What ensued was part artistic planning, part experimentation, and a lot of adapting on the fly, as controlling tissue-thin sheets of metal proved challenging. Of course, that led to a lot of laughing.