A Group of Nations Claiming Unity of Purpose or Common Interests by artist Todd Bartel.

Join us for an informal presentation of collage work by Todd Bartel, one of the twenty-three artists invited to create a work of art inspired by Museum’s archives on display in the exhibition, "Artists in the Archives: Community, History & Collage." Todd will bring several examples of his Landscape Vernacular collage series to view up close and personal, including a current work-in-progress. His talk will examine his unique "interlocking collage" process and his unusual blend of traditional and modern book-making/printing technologies. Learn how the artist fuses (analog) collage with digital collage that connects and links research, language, engravings, and period ephemera to reflect on the landscape, nature, ecology, and climate change.

(See a short video on Todd's studio practice here: https://toddbartel.com/statement)

Todd Bartel is an artist, curator, and historian. He received a BFA in painting from RISD and an MFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon. He has taught at Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Manhattanville College and has been a guest critic at RISD, and the MFA programs of Vermont Collage, New Hampshire Art Institute, and Mass Art. He teaches drawing, painting, collage, and conceptual art at the Cambridge School of Weston (MA) and is the founder & Gallery Director of the Thompson Gallery. Bartel has curated exhibitions at Knoxville Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA) and he is currently working on a show at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, India, to open in January 2023. As a historian of collage, he is a contributing writer for Kolaj magazine. His collage-based studio practice examines the roles of landscape and nature in contemporary culture.

This event is free for Henry Sheldon Museum members; Museum admission will be required for non-members.