Creative Aging: Self Portrait Painting with Brooklyn-Based Artist Whit Harris at High Bridge Library

Explore your artistic potential with Creative Aging, a series of art workshops for adults 50 and older.
 

Please join us at High Bridge Library as we host Brooklyn-based artist Whit Harris for a her special program, Self Portrait Painting. 

This workshop is for adult novice painters who want to learn portrait painting techniques while exploring the concept of the self. We will draw with pencil and charcoal, practice underpainting and basic color theory with acrylic paint, and complete a self portrait from life with acrylic on canvas. Participants will improve their observational and mark-making skills while developing a deeper understanding of the unique qualities that make up their self image.

All materials will be provided. 

Attendance at all sessions is recommended. Space is limited and registration is required. 

Register above with your email address. Walkups will be permitted if space accommodates.

Dates: 4/5, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10 and 5/17
Hours: 10:30 AM -12:30 PM

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About Creative Aging

Creative Aging is a series of free art classes for adults 50 and older. This year, in-person programs are available from branches throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.  Come discover a new art medium or deepen your skills in a practice you’ve explored before! Visit nypl.org/creativeaging for a full list of programs.

About The Artist

Whit Harris’ (b. 1985, Brooklyn, NY) is a multi-disciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, and ceramic media. Her work features representations of the dissoluted experience through disjointed depictions of the human body. Figures stretch, recline, wriggle, twerk and otherwise contort themselves in exaggerated expressions that oscillate between naturalistic and cartoonish forms, and recall the DuBoisian premise of “double consciousness” underlying contemporary Black identity. These figures become metaphors for the artist’s psychological adaptation to unpredictable and hostile environments borne out of anti-black social structures, and reflect the tenacity and ingenuity of Black femme imagination as political resistance. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle and Munich. Harris holds an MFA at Hunter College, NY, and a BA from Stony Brook University, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.