Mark-Making with Sound, with Teaching Artist Melissa McGill
Arts Education Program at Dia:Beacon
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 11 am 
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Event Information
Approx. 45 minute session.
Pre-registration is closed. Please sign up in person at the museum.
Materials included: watercolor, paper, sounds.
Location: Learning Lab.
Ages 5+, appropriate for the whole family. No prior experience necessary.
Related Dia artwork: Max Neuhaus, Time Piece Beacon.
Project Description
In the Learning Lab, participants will be asked to sit and listen to sounds with eyes closed. The sounds will be somewhat unfamilar ones, performed live by musicians. Next, they will be asked to listen again with eyes open, and draw their ideas or impressions of what the sound "looks like" on the paper in front of them, using ink and brushes.
This will be repeated with a range of sounds: first single sounds, then combinations of sounds. Afterwards, McGill will introduce participants to the Neuhaus work, and the group will collectively listen to it and view the related Neuhaus drawing.
About the teacher
Melissa McGill is a professional artist, living in Beacon, NY. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, McGill has been giving sought-after tours at Dia:Beacon for the last two years. She has exhibited her work internationally and is represented by CRG Gallery in New York.
