Artmaking Together & with PAMM
On Saturday, July 11, we celebrated Commissioner’s season finale with PAMM Free Second Saturdays in a virtual artmaking event titled “Get Your Art On” with artists Jahaira Ríos Campos y Gálvez and Kira Tippenhauer. Watch the full recording HERE.
The workshops, focused on photography and ceramics, were divided into two sessions. First, in a session led by Jahaira, we experimented with image transfers by using photographs found at home, and transferring them to interesting new surfaces to make a photo collage.
Next, Kira led the group through a clay-inspired workshop using the The Venus of Willendhorf—one of the world’s oldest works of art as our model. It has been suggested that the Venus is a good luck and a mother goddess symbol.
About PAMM Free Second Saturdays
PAMM Free Second Saturdays features hands-on activities for children and adults as well as guided tours, guest artists, films, performances, and more. Every Second Saturday program explores artwork on-view in new and engaging ways, aimed at inspiring visitors of all ages. For more information about Commissioner, visit commissioner.us. For more information about Second Saturdays at PAMM, visit pamm.org.
About Jahaira Ríos Campos y Gálvez (@jahairariosgalvez)
Miami-based Jahaira Ríos Campos y Gálvez’s art practice is focused on an photography, fiber arts, and performance; creating work that often intertwines the three. She is a past ProjectArt resident, has led photography workshops at the Biscayne Nature Center, and is a recent contributor to online publication UNAFRAID run by local artist Belaxis Buil. She is part of the duo that makes up the Cuentos Retablado project along with Carolina Cueva. She currently teaches Photography at Florida International University, and creates works from a love of investigation, experimentation and self-reflection. Jahaira received her B.F.A. from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and her M.F.A. in Creative Photography from Barry University.
About Kira Tippenhauer (@kira.made)
Kira Tippenhauer is a ceramic and fiber artist born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She immigrated to the U.S. from Haiti in 2004, and now lives and works in Miami, Florida. Trained in visual arts, Kira works with stoneware and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles, weaving, and braiding, to discuss beauty, fragility, femininity, resilience, intersectionality, identity and personal history.
She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Miami International University of Art & Design, and has been the recipient of the Wavemaker Grant for Cannonball’s Open Source Art, Pottery Workshop supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and John S. & James L. Knight Foundation. She also been a teaching artist for many years contributing to outreach programs such as Arts-for-Learning, PAMM, Fairchild Gardens, the Haitian Heritage Museum and the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Bakehouse Art Complex and is currently on view at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.