New! Place Memory - Howardena Pindell with Erin McCluskey Wheeler
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Thursday, November 20, 5:00pm - 6:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Howardena Pindell is an American artist known for her densely textured mixed media paintings as well as her groundbreaking video work, “Free, White and 21.” Howardena’s work pushes at the boundaries of what paintings are supposed to be through abstraction and with a huge range of materials. In 1979, Howardena was in a terrible car accident and lost a lot of her memories. She started her Autobiography series using postcards of places she’d traveled to (but could no longer remember), cutting these apart and filling in the gaps with paint. In this workshop, we will learn more about Howardena’s decades long art career and use her Autobiography series as a jumping off point for our own explorations of collage and paint. By cutting apart and painting the spaces in between an image, we will get to really play with color and mimicking shapes with paint.
Join Zoom 15 minutes early for an informal meet and greet with the instructor and class participants! Class will begin promptly at 5 minutes past the hour, so everyone has plenty of time to create!
SUGGESTED MATERIALS:
- At least one postcard to cut up but feel free to have more on hand. You can also use a photograph or an image from a magazine.
- Scissors
- Your favorite Watercolor paints
- 2-3 pieces of Watercolor paper (8x10 or 9x12)
- Brushes - I like small round brushes for this
- Cup of Water
- Mixing palette Studio Cloth or Paper Towel
- Glue
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR
Erin McCluskey Wheeler is a third generation Richmond resident who works in painted paper collage, writing, and found materials. Erin is a faculty member at the 92nd Street Y in New York and teaches at the Richmond Art Center, Ruth’s Table, and other Bay Area art centers. She has designed and filmed two classes with Creativebug — Collage Homage (March 2025) and a Daily Practice Collage class (Release date - January 2026). Her mixed media work has been licensed and sold with West Elm, Samsung, Target, and Minted. Erin has been an Artist in Residence for the City of El Cerrito, the City of Walnut Creek, Nick’s Cove, and Creighton University. Her mosaic work, Still Here — made up of plastic collected from the Richmond shoreline — was included in the 2024 Right Here Right Now Richmond Biennial exhibition. Erin was a co-founder and curator for the first three years of Richmond Open Studios - a highly successful city wide event produced by the Visual Artists of Richmond. In 2025, she was awarded Best Local Maker / Artist by the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce. Erin holds a BA in Art History and Studio Art from Beloit College and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts.
erinmwheeler.com // IG @erinmwheeler
THINGS TO KNOW
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