Museum of Lost Things: Watercolour Workshop with Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky
Collaborate with artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky on their ongoing art project, Museum of Lost Things.
Participants will start by learning the basics of watercolour and ink drawing, then make a painting of an object from memory that has been lost or given away. The artists will later turn your artwork into a three-dimensional lantern to be shown in future exhibitions of their sculptural installation, Museum of Lost Things.
For participants 16+
This workshop is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky: Edelweiss.
Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, based in New York and Toronto respectively, have worked collaboratively since 2004. Their work has increasingly incorporated communal aspects of making, such as DIY tutorial videos and virtual crafting bees, in the context of economies of appropriation, trade, and the gift. Their recent video project Crafts Abyss was hosted by the Museum of Arts & Design, New York. Other exhibitions since 2022 include a major temporary public installation for OpenArt, Orebro; and solo exhibitions at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governors Island, New York; and the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville. Their work is in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal. They were awarded the 2014 Glenfiddich Prize and were the 2022 L.L. Odette Sculptors in Residence at York University, Toronto.