Thursday: Mickalene Thomas at the Phillips Collection Best known for her complex and beautiful portraiture of Black women completed on a massive scale, New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas ’ mixed-media paintings can be found across D.C. at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum , the Rubell , and now in the Phillips Collection’s newest special exhibition, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage .
Her larger-than-life work usually speaks for itself, but Thomas is coming to town this Thursday to discuss the inspirations behind her pieces in the exhibition with Multiplicity ’s curator, Katie Delmez . If Thomas’ words on craft and artistic vision strike a chord within you and leave you wanting to make your own masterpiece, you’re in luck. In addition to this talk, Multiplicity is hosting a slew of free artist events and collage workshops before the exhibit closes on Sept.
22. Allow Thomas’ words inspire you to let your inner collage artist free and make some art worthy of display in the Phillips (or your living room). The conversation between Mickalene Thomas and Katie Delmez starts at 6:30 p.
m. on Aug. 15 at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. phillipscollection.org .
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