Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Do our bodies tell stories that we don't have words for? What assumptions do painters make; what oppressions do they challenge or perpetuate in their representations of the human form? Inspired by Augosto Boal's Image Theatre, we will consider these questions while we move through a series of physical and conceptual exercises while investigating and challenging the representations of race, gender and class in the portrait and history paintings in Making American American Artists: Stories From PAFA, 1776 - 1976. Over the course of the session, we will become “empowered models”, creating meaning, definition, and liberated stories with our bodies.

Registration includes the entrance fee to PAFA's Museum.