Beauty found in what remains… Collage workshop

Par­tic­i­pants will cre­ate a hand held paper col­lage using the same tech­nique used by the artist to cre­ate the shapes and forms that inspired her mur­al cur­rent­ly at Hud­son Yards. 

Blan­ka Amezkua is a New York-based artist whose mul­ti­fac­eted prac­tice is deeply root­ed in the visu­al lan­guages of folk art and pop­u­lar cul­ture. Although she received for­mal train­ing as a painter, her work has long tran­scend­ed con­ven­tion­al bound­aries, inte­grat­ing mate­ri­als and meth­ods tra­di­tion­al­ly asso­ci­at­ed with domes­tic and craft-based prac­tices — par­tic­u­lar­ly embroi­dery, cro­chet and papel pic­a­do. Through these tech­niques, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with so many oth­ers, she address­es com­plex issues relat­ed to cul­ture, pol­i­tics, and gen­der, weav­ing inti­mate ges­tures with broad­er social concerns.

Bronx Coun­cil On the Arts is one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.