Collaging with … Helina Metaferia
Artist-led series
To accompany Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection presents a dynamic artist-led adult series exploring the depth of collaging followed by a reception with the artist. Each Sunday from August 4-September 1, an internationally renowned artist will share their unique creative process and lead the participants in the creation of an artwork. Each session highlights a different form of collaging. Materials included. All levels welcome.
About Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University’s Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia’s work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.
IMAGE: Helina Metaferia, Headdress 61 (Part of By Way of Revolution series), 2023, Mixed media collage, 96 x 48 in., Courtesy of the artist, © Helina Metaferia
