High school students are invited to sign on and shed election stress while using drawing as a tool for relaxation and mindfulness. 2017 Artist Fellow Camille Hoffman will guide teens in a drawing meditation that will serve to calm and recenter minds after a long, angst-inducing election season.

Suggested Materials

• Paper
• Drawing utensils, such as pencils, pens, and markers

For high school students only. Register to receive an email 24 hours in advance of the program with instructions for accessing the workshop on Zoom.

About the Artist

MAD's 2017 Artist Fellow, Camille Hoffman is currently working on a mixed-media meditation on Manifest Destiny and its representation in American Romantic landscape art. Reflecting on the embedded and latent meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender, and power in influential American landscape paintings of the nineteenth century, she uses materials collected from childhood and her everyday life, including holiday-themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags, and paint, to craft imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative, and historical critique. Her paintings and installations are layered geographies, in which these fragments of cultural objects are chromatically twisted and blended into complex wholes. Taking inspiration from the Philippine weaving and the Jewish folk traditions of her ancestors, along with traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, she interweaves image with refuse in order to reveal seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions. Disrupting visual perception, her scraps of materials take on new life, becoming a vehicle of territorial reclamation and spiritual agency for the artist amid the pressures of economic and political globalization in the anthropocene.