(Re)Drawing Histories is a hands-on studio course that will employ drawing and printmaking techniques to unpack and reimagine cultural and personal histories. Using Palileo’s process of research-based methodology, students will explore oral histories and photographic and literary influences that will become resources for their drawings, paper cut-outs, rubbings, and prints. Participation in this class will also include a tour of Palileo’s exhibition, Meandering Curves of a Creek, which draws from research done at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Price: $150

Audience: Open to all adults regardless of experience.

Materials: All materials provided to students in class.

Maia Cruz Palileo is a multi-disciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist. Migration and the permeable concept of home are constant themes in her paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings. Influenced by the oral history of her family’s arrival in United States from the Philippines, as well as the history between the two countries, Maia infuses these narratives using both memory and imagination. When stories and memories are subjected to time and constant retelling, the narratives become questionable, bordering the line between fact and fiction, while remaining cloaked in the convincingly familiar.

Maia is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Program Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, NYFA Painting Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award and the Astraea Visual Arts Fund Award. She received an MFA in sculpture from Brooklyn College, City University of New York and BA in Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. Maia has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, Millay Colony, New York and the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans.