Graduate student Erin Tyler was invited to give a workshop at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in conjunction with the museum’s fall exhibition “Sarah Crowner: Around Orange.”
The education workshop on notebook making was held October 2023. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation is located in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sarah Crowner is a nationally recognized visual artist who makes paintings, ceramics, sculptures, installations and theatre sets, some of which were on display in the exhibit.
Channeling Crowner’s style
Tyler, who is pursuing an MFA in visual studies in the Department of Art and Design, led workshop participants in cutting and binding hand-painted paper into original and interactive notebooks.
The notebooks mimicked the organic forms and hard edges present in Crowner’s paintings, which were featured in the exhibition.
Tyler hand-painted the papers in the notebooks to channel and reflect Crowner’s work.
“This process was particularly important and meaningful to me because I feel a deep connection to Sarah Crowner’s practice and wanted to honor that connection by responding to her work using my own visual language,” Tyler said.
“Crowner herself often responds directly to artists she admires, noting that she ‘channels’ them through her practice,” she added.
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