About Holding Water: Artist Workshop with Evelyn Rydz
Join us for an an immersive, hands-on workshop in which participants will explore the intersection of art and the environment under the guidance of artist Evelyn Rydz. Inspired by the installation Holding Water, participants will engage with themes of water conservation, sustainability, and the natural world through creative expression.
Drawing inspiration from Rydz’s own work, which often explores human connections to nature, participants will have the opportunity to experiment with watercolor pencils, ink, and meditative drawing.
This workshop is best suited for ages 16+.
About the Artist:
Multidisciplinary artist Evelyn Rydz creates work across drawing, site-responsive installations and community projects. Her artistic practice centers on interconnected bodies of water, highlighting relationships between personal histories, human impacts, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems. In her participatory projects, Rydz creates spaces for intergenerational community conversations and collective art making exploring immigration, public health, ancestral foods, and ways we are shaped by our sense of home.
Rydz is a recipient of the Artadia Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, U.S. Latinx Art Forum Charla Fund, Brother Thomas Fellowship, SMFA Traveling Fellowship, Artist Resource Trust Grant, Visual Arts Finalist of the Cintas Knight Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.
Recent exhibitions include features at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Galeria Ponce + Robles, Madrid, Spain; Anchorage Museum, AK; USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA; Palmer Art Museum, Penn State University, PA; Jordan Snitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Palacio de Justicia, Matanzas, Cuba; El Parque Cultural del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA among others.
Rydz is committed to creating participatory community projects, and has collaborated with the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, University of Massachusetts, ICA Watershed, Boston University’s 808 Gallery, Urbano Project and the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art.
Her work has been featured in Boston Art Review, TIME, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, Science Friday, WGBH, Edible Boston, WBUR, among others. Her work is part of collections including the Federal Reserve Bank, Barr Foundation, Tufts University Art Galleries, Fitchburg Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, and Fidelity Investments.
Rydz received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and is currently Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
https://evelynrydz.com/home.html
Image: Folded Waters (Atlántico). Installation created for Ríos Intermitentes, part of the 13th Havana Biennial Palacio de Justicia, Matanzas, Cuba.
Cancellation Policy: In the event The Trustees cancels a program due to severe weather, low enrollment, or other circumstances, we will notify registrants by email and issue a full refund or transfer to another scheduled program within two weeks of the cancellation. To cancel a reservation, please reach out 7 days prior to the start of the program to receive a full refund. Refunds and transfers may not be granted for cancellations placed fewer than 7 days before the start of the program.
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