Mentor-in-Residence

Yolanda Paulsen
Master Class in Sculptural Issues
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - Sunday, January 30, 2011, inclusive

Cost: $75

Application deadline: Friday January 14, 2011

For the week following the symposium, Yolanda will lead a master class for women artists focusing on sculptural practices. We are building upon the momentum of Sculptural Vocabularies by offering in-depth discussions (both one-on-one and group) about issues pertaining to work in 3-dimensions. Yolanda’s process is intuitive and physical. She will work with participants to share their process, “dig deeper” and explore the relationships between gesture and theory. She will be working with the theme of internal and external “power” in the workshop. She will set the curriculum for this week-long intensive to include looking at work, facilitated discussion, exploratory assignments, movement exercises, and individual critiques. Meeting times will be decided by the group.

Enrollment in the master class will be limited to 4-6 mid-career and established women artists, chosen by Yolanda. To apply, please submit:

• a paragraph about your artistic practice (a description of what you make and the ideas that drive your work)
• a line or two about why you want to participate in this program
• 5 jpg images of your artwork

If you are not already a member, please submit a MAWA membership form and payment. In order to apply, you must be a MAWA member. Cost of program is $75.00. Applications are due at MAWA by Friday, January 14. Please submit by e-mail to: programs@mawa.ca. Put “Master Class” in the subject heading.

A third-generation artist, Yolanda Paulsen was brought up in an environment where art, music and dance were omnipresent in the household. Exposed to her father’s profession as a jeweller and sculptor, she was inspired at an early age to pursue a career in art. As a teenager, she studied for three years at the Arts Student’s League in New York and later in the National School of Art, “La Esmeralda,” in Mexico City, her home. Her work has been exhibited in museums such as Museo de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes, and the Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporano in Mexico. This year, together with Gabriel Orozco, she participated in the exhibition Bio Diversidad Mexicana at the Museo de Historia Natural in Mexico City. She is a twice-honoured recipient of a grant from Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and she has been invited to show her work in Germany, Belgium, China, United States, Colombia and Canada, where, during the summer of 2009, she was a resident artist at the Banff Center. Her fondness for Canada began at the 9th Symposium international d’art in situ, organized by the Foundation Derouin, in Val David, Quebec. Her sculptural practice explores how all things, animate and inanimate, are interconnected and form a unity, a whole.