WORKSHOP AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS 2024
Dye & Pigment
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 12:30-1:30PM
New Orleans Healing Center
Emily Denlinger
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Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 12-16 June 2024. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.
Emily Denlinger’s narrative collages reference contemporary society, distribution of information, classism, human interactions, and attempts to understand and attempt to control the natural world around us. Analog collaged figures are created from fashion magazines and vintage National Geographic magazines. These figures are collaged into ethereal, amorphous, dream-like landscapes, void of a particular time and place. The ethereal backgrounds are created using pigment and dye-based calligraphy inks or fiber reactive clothing dye on 100% cotton paper. The chemicals and pigments in the dyes break apart and spread in ways that can only be partially controlled. This leads to a balance between the very controlled collages and the spontaneous and serendipitous nature of the color fields created by the dyeing process. Denlinger will share her techniques during this workshop and speak about alternative materials.
ARTIST BIO
Emily Denlinger has worked as Area Head and Professor of Digital Arts, Photography and New Media at Southeast Missouri State University since 2009. Originally from Ohio, she holds BFA in 2D Art with a Concentration in Photography from Bowling Green State University, and an MA in Digital Art and an MFA in Photography and Digital Art from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her collages have been exhibited across the USA and are held in collections internationally. In addition to her gallery practice, Denlinger creates accessible wearable art that is created for commissions or sold in the local community at boutiques and fundraising sales. In her free time, she works with the Cape Girardeau County Clerk’s office to promote voting and voter registration and as an election judge. Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory and www.emilydenlinger.com
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 12-16 June 2024. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.