Identity, History, & Collage

Join us for an in-depth discussion with artist-in-residence, Paula Mans, about her series Cotton Flower and how the art of collage is much like how our own identities are formed. We will discuss how taking parts of images and rearranging them to create new ones can be a means of re-envisioning historical narratives, giving a new, deeper understanding of the past.

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season's events!

About the Artist:

Paula Mans is a mixed media artist and art educator based in Washington, DC. Mans spent her formative years living in Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, and Brazil. Her experiences throughout Africa and its diaspora shaped her identity and informed the development of her artistic voice. Mans is a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Fulbright Research Fellowship, the Arts and Humanities Fellowship for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Vermont Studio Center Visual Art Fellowship. Her work has recently been acquired by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank collection.