with Cicelia Ross-Gotta
Sun. February 9th, 16th, & 23rd, 2-4pm
at PS1 Close House (538 S. Gilbert St.)
pay-what-you-can: $15-$140

This playful project is designed to loosen your creative juices and to try new mediums or forms in a community setting. For this workshop, participants will all receive a box with materials (for example, the materials could be clay, paint, a spoon, concrete, paperclips, a banana, etc…) and will be challenged to make an artwork using all of the materials provided. Every box will have the same supplies. The work can be sculptural, performative, 2-D, whatever - this is all up to the artist. We will spend the first session getting to know each other’s art backgrounds and introducing the project. The second session will be an in-progress check in with the option to work on our pieces or troubleshoot any issues together. The final session of the workshop will conclude with a group presentation of our artworks. This was a favorite project of mine in grad school (taught by the late Doug Jeck) and personally led me to incorporating new ideas into my projects that I still use to this day.

Open to ages 6+. Children should be accompanied by an adult; each can register separately to get their own box if desired.

Registration deadline: Feb. 2

*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from Hills Bank and individual donors. $126 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.

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TEACHING ARTIST:

Originally from Kansas, Ross-Gotta relocated to Iowa City from Seattle in 2020 after earning an MFA in sculpture from the University of Washington. In her practice, Ross-Gotta uses text, textiles and performance as ways to explore vulnerability and the human condition. In 2022, she co founded PALI, The Performance Art Lab of Iowa, a free monthly performance art workshop group. Most recently, she is a collaborator in the Typedancing Collective, an interdisciplinary performance featuring poetry zines and dance accompanied by the sounds of typewriters and other obsolete office equipment.