Explore the world of maps as artistic medium and artifact, while engaging in the creative strategies also involved in the process.  Learn to create personal geographies on paper based on your own life histories, personal journeys, and collective stories.  Artist/teacher Guillermo Delgado will present and discuss his own history in art-making and arts education and help you explore the broad world of artist-inspired cartography.  Come prepared to explore your own internal and external worlds, as well as those that have lasted millennia! 

The materials and techniques we will use in the course include various collage approaches, multiple ways of painting and drawing, mixed media, and both newly-written and aged/found texts.  At the end of the course you will have the opportunity to organize and bind your maps into a unique and individualized handmade atlas/book that you can exhibit and take with you as a reminder not only of the new worlds you have explored, but also those you have previously left behind.  All levels of artistic skills are welcomed and encouraged to participate!

August 2 - 8, 2010      Ghost Ranch Abiquiu

Registration Fee: 375 (includes $25 lab fee) + housing & meals
Before May 15: Save $100 

Guillermo Delgado, Chicago, IL Guillermo is a visual artist living in the Chicagoland area and has taught several courses at Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu for the past four years.  He has spent the last sixteen years creating art professionally.  Guillermo shares his passion for art with children, adults, and educators wherever he goes, engaging them in the creation of their own visual art, as well as helping to construct curricula that infuse art into the academic experience.  His art has been published by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader, Archdiocese of Chicago, Crain’s Chicago Business, and Chilean art magazine Arte Allimite.  Exhibition of his art includes venues such as the National Museum of Mexican Art, Museum of Science and Industry, The School of the Art Institute’s Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago History Museum, Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston IL, Garrett Evangelical School of Northwestern University, Heard Museum in Phoenix, Mexican Museum in San Francisco, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Elmhurst College.  Guillermo was recently awarded a Ragdale Foundation artist residency through the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, see www.gdelgado.com.

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