Find inspiration in the work and process of artist Stella Waitzkin. Take a moment to learn more about her by downloading her artist overview. Then, use materials and objects from your home to complete the activity.
Stella Waitzkin Artist Overview
The Impact of Your Surroundings
Step 1
Take a moment to reflect. How does your own environment and the current time period we are in influence you and your work?
Step 2
Document your thoughts in a voice recording, a journal, or with images in a sketchbook or digital collage or have a conversation with a friend.
Step 3
Interview a friend or family member who grew up in a different time period. What is different about the time period when they were a child versus the time period you experienced? How do you think your experiences make you similar or different?
Keep Exploring!
– Discuss or journal: Stella Waitzkin’s later work includes reoccurring imagery such as fish, birds, and faces. Do you notice reoccurring imagery or ideas in your own work?
– View more of Stella Waitzkin’s work at artpreserve.org.
– Research and look at the work of Stella Waitzkin’s professors and abstract expressionists Hans Hoffmann and Willem de Kooning.
