Rhizome is pleased to offer (multi)(animation), a special 2-hour workshop with Baltimore-based visual artist Paulina Velasquez-Solis, as part of our ongoing Unthings kids' program. Unthings pairs children with local & visiting artists who provide materials, ideas, and guidance, while encouraging kids to develop and explore their own creative ideas and questions.

In this special session, Paulina will lead a collective creation session using the same software platform for live animation and sound performance seen in her multifungi project (currently on view at Rhizome). The session will start with some context of how she started the multifungi project, the concepts behind live animation, and how the tool works. Then, we will create new live sequences of collective visual narrative and assemble them into a collaborative animation during the workshop.

WHEN: SUNDAY MAY 21st, 11am-1PM
AGES: 8 and up
COST: $30 for the 2-hour session.

Paulina Velázquez Solis is a visual artist working with diverse media such as installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. Her work has been presented in places like Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, TEOR/éTica and Instituto México in Costa Rica. And she has shown internationally at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, Museo de Arte in San Salvador, Torino Contemporanea in Italy, La Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, UCLA Biennial in Los Ángeles, as well as various film festivals.
In 2010 she obtained an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, under a Fulbright and PEO Peace Scholarship, and in 2008 she obtained her Licenciatura in Art and Visual Communication in Printmaking from Universidad Nacional de Costa Ric