Connect & Create: Pop Art Poster Workshop

Inspired by the work of artists and educators Sister Corita Kent and Keith Haring, students will create brightly colored text-based posters that address concerns around social justice, current issues, or to convey a message of peace. The printmaking technique of collagraphy will be used to produce multiples, and individual posters can be embellished with elements of collage and mixed media. Design, print, and produce a small run of posters to distribute or to keep!

This exhibition is offered in conjunction with LUAG's current exhibition ChangeMakers!, a multisite exhibiton, drawn from LUAG’s extensive art collection, that highlights the many forms of change-making. Explore artworks in a range of media that reveal change makers at work — activists, organizers, and of course, artists. Be sure to watch the interviews below with local change makers in the Lehigh Valley, gathered by Lehigh University students, that reveal insights, strategies, and ambitions for positive change in our own community.

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This workshop will be led by artist and educator Kayla GIbbons. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kayla Gibbons received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2013 and BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2011. She is the 2014 recipient of the Connecticut Artist Fellowship Grant offered through the Connecticut Office of the Arts. Kayla has been an artist in residence at the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock, New York and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. Her work has been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and internationally in Rome, Poland, and Turkey. Kayla is an adjunct professor at Lehigh Univeristy, Marymount Manhattan College, Brooklyn College, and the School of Visual Arts. In addition to studio courses, Kayla delivers an art history seminar at the School of Visual Arts entitled Monument/Memorial: Sculpture & The American Landscape, an extension of her research and practice. Kayla works between Queens, New York and Bangor, Pennsylvania. She runs a studio and gallery in Bangor called Supply.