Last chance to join our framing workshop, Presentation Matters, beginning tomorrow. If you are ✅ an artist, ✅ creative, ✅ art collector, or ✅ just have some family photos you’d like to frame, this is a unique opportunity to learn to frame artwork with @villacustomartframing and leave with a fully framed piece at the end of the weekend. Open to all levels, no experience needed. Link in bio.
Happening this week at COMO! Please join us on Saturday, May 9th at 2:00pm for an artist lecture with Jarod Lew. Lew is an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning.
This in-person event requires registration. Spaces are limited. Doors open at 1:30 PM. Follow the link in bio.
Please join COMO for an artist lecture with Jarod Lew. Lew is an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning.
His project, Please Take Off Your Shoes was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2021, and was exhibited in a group exhibition at SFMOMA titled Kinship: Photography and Connection in 2023. His other project, In Between You and Your Shadow, examines his relationship with his mother, who was the fiancé of Vincent Chin—the subject of a hate-crime that brought national attention to matters of Asian American civil rights. In 2025, Lew mounted his first museum exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art titled- Strange You Never Knew.
His works are held in public and private collections including the Cantor Art Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kadist, San Francisco, Harvard Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lew’s work has been written about in Aperture, Artforum, Elephant Magazine, and Aesthetica Magazine. Lew graduated with an MFA in photography at the Yale School of Art.
This in-person event requires registration. Spaces are limited.
MAY 16 & 17: Join Fernando & I at @como.artspace for "Presentation Matters" - a fun weekend framing your art! We'll share the framing skills every working artist, collector, and art industry worker should know, including:
■ Best Archival Practices
■ Aesthetics of Presentation
■ Materials and Tools
■ Several Matting and Framing Techniques
✨️ This rare opportunity for this workshop is possible because of the work of COMO Art Foundation.
REGISTER at @como.artspace
#framingworkshop #artclass #azworkshops #fineartframing #frameyourart
FRAMING WORKSHOP: Join us at @como.artspace on Saturday, May 16th + Sunday, May 17th for "Presentation Matters". This introductory workshop will teach you the art of framing for your own exhibitions, artwork, and collectibles. We'll teach matting, artwork mounting, frame-fitting, and provide important tips and information so you can start framing yourself!
We are happy to be a part of this amazing resource, thanks to the work of @claireawarden + @davidemittadams at COMO Art Foundation!
Cost: $125 (Includes your own finished 8x10 frame)
+ Registration link is in the bio.
(Artwork by Fernando Villavicencio @villythakid )
Our next Lumen workshop is almost here! Join @claireawarden and @davidemittadams on Saturday, March 28 from 11:00AM-3:30PM to spend the day learning the process and making prints.
Link in bio! #lumen #workshop #azarts
I felt like I was missing half my brain yesterday I was so tired, but learning to play with Chemigrams @como.artspace was the perfect way to spark me to life for the afternoon! Thanks to Claire and David for being fabulous hosts and teachers as always. If you missed this one don't worry they have many more workshops and lectures coming!
Join us Saturday, January 31, 11 AM - 3:30 PM for a hands-on all-levels Chemigram workshop! We’ll cover the process start to finish and participants will leave with multiple Chemigram prints at the end of the day. Link to register in bio. $75, all materials provided.
#lumen #cameralessphotography #workshop
Hard to believe this Tintype & Ambrotype workshop was almost a year ago! What fun and great work made from that workshop by @jamaicagilmer@fallingrocket and @beihua_guo . Thanks for sharing all those moments y’all!
There’s still time to join us for our upcoming Wetplate workshops: 8x10 Wetplate on January 17-19 and Intro to Wetplate on February 14-16 with @davidemittadams . Learn more and sign up through the link in our bio!
Join us on Sunday, January 11, 2025 from 2-3:30 PM for an artist lecture with @sonja_rthomsem . Thomsen will discuss her work and practice for using light as both medium and method.
Thomsen’s photographic installations use light as both medium and method, developing over 10 years what she calls ‘gravitational lensing’ - a practice named after the cosmic phenomenon where massive objects bend and magnify light from distant sources, acting as a magnifying glass. In Thomsen’s work, this concept becomes a metaphor for making visible the orbiting figures (often women) who shaped the canonical art stars we think we know.
Seats are limited, registration is required.
#artistlecture #azarts #phxart
Join us on Sunday, January 11, 2025 from 2-3:30 PM for an artist lecture with @sonja_rthomsem . Thomsen will discuss her work and practice for using light as both medium and method.
Thomsen’s photographic installations use light as both medium and method, developing over 10 years what she calls ‘gravitational lensing’ - a practice named after the cosmic phenomenon where massive objects bend and magnify light from distant sources, acting as a magnifying glass. In Thomsen’s work, this concept becomes a metaphor for making visible the orbiting figures (often women) who shaped the canonical art stars we think we know.
Seats are limited, registration is required.
#artistlecture #azarts #phxart
