Zooming in to Appearances Can Be Deceiving and Ex-Voto Painting

 I had a conflict, and I had to decide which 5:00 pm event I was going to attend.  The other was someone I know, and it was a one-time talk, but it was "sold out," so this is what I attended:

Topic

Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving Digital Curator Discussion and Ex-Voto Drawing Workshop

Description

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the highly anticipated exhibition Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving led by guest curator Circe Henestrosa and advising curator Gannit Ankori, with opening remarks by Hillary Olcott, coordinating curator and associate curator of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Following the conversation, join teaching artist Raphael Noz to explore the ex-voto painting tradition, which inspired the work of Frida Kahlo. Ex-voto or votive paintings are a tradition of folk art that pay tribute to divine intervention in personal calamities, as well as providing an inadvertent catalogue of human misfortune.

The following materials are needed for the activity:

Pencil
12”x 8” Cardboard (landscape)
Acrylic Paints* or color pencils or pastels
Paintbrushes (if using paint)

*If planning to paint prep cardboard by painting white.

Time

Jun 25, 2020 05:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

What I thought was most touching were the two stories Rafael Noz, who led us (but not really me) in the ex-voto painting,  told when explaining what inspired his ex-voto paintings  The friend whose book appeared in a bookshop window right before he heard of his death and all that transpired and the partner's mother's singing to him and then his finding out that she sang to all her sons.