Teen Map Making Series
1100 E Street
San Rafael
Three session cumulative series, registration is required and assumes students will attend all three classes.
Part 1: Thursday, 6/11 – meet each other and become familiar with Napangardi’s work
Part 2: Thursday, 6/18 – planning projects and beginning work
Part 3: Thursday, 6/25 – extended time to work on projects
Students will learn about Dorothy Napangardi’s art and influences and adapt her way of working to make their own drawings. Dorothy Napangardi was an Indigenous Australian artist whose paintings translate aerial views of her home landscape into abstract patterns. She used artistic approaches rooted in the landscape, tradition, and embodied knowledge to create a visual language about her home.
After learning about and discussing Napangardi’s work, we’ll have an extended conversation about our own neighborhoods. We’ll look at our neighborhoods from a birds eye point of view to find any patterns and select sites that are important to us like parks, walking trails, and third spaces and use them to create our own unique patterns.
About the Instructor
Megan Broughton is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, addressing the climate crisis, loss, transformation, and the sublime. She has exhibited widely, with highlights at Berkeley Art Center, Richmond Art Center, and SFArtsED Gallery at Minnesota Street Project. Notable residencies include MaréMotrice in Greenland and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard. She has taught art at The Oxbow School, California State Summer School for the Arts, and SFArtsED among others. Megan holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a 2023 California Arts Council Emerging Individual Artist Fellow.
Registration required.
To register, please email brianna.collins@cityofsanrafael.org