Join the artist of Hacia Cuando (To When), Daniela Rivera, for a process-oriented workshop on Fresco making. Each participant will receive materials and instructions to create individual, small-scale frescos on wood panels.

Daniela Rivera poses questions to think through the process of building Fresco together:

What if painting did not depend on the image it depicts, but on how it is built? What if painting were not a surface, but a structure, a crystal that defies time, carrying the memory of its own making as it ages? What if we shift the verb from painting to making a painting? What if painting were less about mastering depiction and more about entering an intimate dialogue with the history and formation of its materials?

This workshop is a space to formulate these and many other questions through making. Together, we will work through the history, engage with the present, and explore the possible futures of fresco in our culture by studying traditional techniques and exploring contemporary adaptations of this ancient process. At the end of our workshop you will have incorporated a new process into your tool kit, understood materials, color, and painting anew, and created a painting that has a body, a memory, and a life of its own. All levels are welcome.

About the Artist:
Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera is Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts and has exhibited widely in Latin America and the United States. Her honors include residencies at Skowhegan and Headlands, and the Rappaport Prize.

Conceived with Denise Markonish, Daniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When) is organized by Evan Garza, Curator, MASS MoCA.

Daniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When) has been supported by a grant from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Artist’s Resource Trust.