Eileen Viloria – The Andy Warhol Museum https://www.warhol.org Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:27:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Making It: Stamping and Wrapping Paper https://www.warhol.org/making-it-stamping-and-wrapping-paper/ https://www.warhol.org/making-it-stamping-and-wrapping-paper/#respond Fri, 29 Jan 2021 05:02:49 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?p=9066 This short video from the museum’s learning department offers a simple demonstration on how to make fun and festive wrapping paper inspired by Warhol’s stamping technique, adapted for home use for families and makers of all ages.

]]> https://www.warhol.org/making-it-stamping-and-wrapping-paper/feed/ 0 Mail Art and Artist Trading Cards https://www.warhol.org/mail-art-and-artist-trading-cards/ https://www.warhol.org/mail-art-and-artist-trading-cards/#respond Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:35:01 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?p=7979 Connect and collaborate with projects inspired by Warhol’s creative correspondence with fellow artist and friend, Ray Johnson. Mail art, Johnson’s artistic practice, began in the 1950s and used the postal service as a way to engage with a number of people on multiple pieces at a time. Similarly, The Warhol’s Youth Arts Council produced a series of Artist Trading Cards to connect with their peers outside of virtual meetings by trading and collecting cards through the mail.  

]]> https://www.warhol.org/mail-art-and-artist-trading-cards/feed/ 0 Education Outreaches https://www.warhol.org/education-outreaches/ https://www.warhol.org/education-outreaches/#respond Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:15:55 +0000 http://blog.warhol.org/?p=296 Giving tours and facilitating workshops is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to being an Artist Educator at The Andy Warhol Museum. Many people don’t realize how often we actually go out into the field to share our knowledge about Andy Warhol and our passion for the arts. For several weeks before the holidays, fellow educator Jen and I traveled down to Wheeling, WV to work with The Stifel Fine Arts Center and three area high schools- John Marshall High School, Wheeling Central Catholic High School, and Wheeling Park High School.

Using Warhol’s architectural prints as inspiration and photographs taken by Neal Warren, students created multiple layered prints of Wheeling landmarks.

Front page of the Daily News announcing Andy Warhol's death. The headline reads "Pop Art's King Dies". View of the front facade of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy Warhol meeting Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. View of the sanctuary and altar of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A person wearing a cardingan, dress shirt, and necktie looks to his right. Andy Warhol as a young man seated on a bench with another person with their feet on a tiger-skin rug and houseplants in the background. Andy Warhol, dressed in a blazer, shirt, and trousers, stands on a beach next to a person wearing a speedo style swimsuit. An aerial view of the Warhol estate in Montauk. BNY Mellon ]]> https://www.warhol.org/education-outreaches/feed/ 0 Perry High School https://www.warhol.org/perry-high-school/ https://www.warhol.org/perry-high-school/#respond Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:48:35 +0000 http://blog.warhol.org/?p=266 It’s been a whirlwind of a school year for us in the Education Department and the light at the end of the tunnel is almost within reach. The last several weeks have been spent working on different school partnerships, giving tours and conducting workshops galore.  Schedules are constantly changing and EVERYTHING is written in pencil.  I’ve been a busy little bumble bee and I wouldn’t have it any other way.  I’m lucky enough to do what I love and share it with a wide range of students.

In a previous blog post I had written about surviving high school the second time around.  I, along with my colleague Leah Morelli, entered the parallel universe of my alma mater, Perry High School, and worked with two of their art classes.  I did indeed survive and am even willing to do it again next school year.  Over the course of 8 weeks the students learned about Andy Warhol, Pop Art, Warhol’s Wallpaper series, silk screening, composition, and collage.  We also looked at the work of Shepard Fairey and Ludovica Gioscia for their use of silkscreening, repetition, and large wallpaper pieces in their contemporary artwork, as well as their art making processes.

Museum Visit

Retangular silver foil balloons float in an empty white-walled room with a brown floor. An Andy Warhol box sculpture reproduction of a mid-1960s Heinz tomato ketchup supermarket box. Andy Warhol and author Truman Capote posing in a photoshoot for the cover of the 1978 holiday issue of High Times magazine. Warhol's Time Capsules, packaged in cardboard boxes and arranged on shelves. The cover of the book "Andy Warhol's Exposures" by Bob Colacello, first published in 1979. Two rows of the same image repeated three times- a person peeling a banana viewed from the side.. Still from a season two episode of Andy Warhol's tv, featuring comedian Paul Reubens as Pee Wee Herman. Camouflage pattern in red, pink, blue and white.

After sitting through several PowerPoint presentations and surviving, the students were invited to the museum and take part in a Warhol Workshop.  During this 3 hour workshop, students were given a museum tour and the opportunity to get their creative juices flowing in our studio.  It was nice to have the students finally SEE what I had been talking about in their classroom.  During their studio time, students learned about Andy Warhol’s underpainting and silk screening process to make their own celebrity Pop Portraits.

Art Making Process

A silkscreen print from the Warhol Flowers series. Brightly colored flowers are arranged against a bright green and black background. Campbell's Soup Can with Torn Label, a 1962 screen print by Andy Warhol showing a soup can with a torn red and white label. Andy Warhol's 1964 replica of a box of a Brillo soap pads using the midcentury red, white, and blue color scheme. A grid of canvases in shades of blue and gold hanging on a wall. The repeated image is of Jackie Kennedy, wife of former President John F. Kennedy. In the foreground is a vitrine displaying various magazine and newspaper clippings surround the JFK assassination. A screen print of a blue-skinned Richard Nixon wearing a pink suit jacket. "Vote McGovern" is written below the image. A colorful screen print by Andy Warhol of Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong. Singer and actress Cher in the 1980s smiling at the camera. Grace Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Andy Warhol stand in an outdoor pavilion in front of an empty dance floor. Madonna, Kenny Scharf, Juan Dubose and Keith Haring captured in a 1985 candid photo by Andy Warhol. Polaroid of boxer Muhammed Ali with his fist lifted to his chin, taken by Andy Warhol in 1977.

The students were broken up into groups and assigned a subject matter that Andy Warhol had used in his artwork – celebrities, shoes, animals, food, and cars.  We asked students: “If Andy Warhol were alive today and still making art, what popular images would he turn into Pop Art?”  Through several brainstorming sessions and library research days, each group found 3 images that they felt best represented their subject and they were made into silkscreens.  Students spent a few class periods printing their images in different colors and layers.  The students then cut up and arranged their prints to create a large collage with wallpaper paste.

Finished Projects

June 1979 cover of Interview Magazine by Andy Warhol featuring Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie. Warhol illustration of a fashionably dressed woman standing next to a dog on a green chair, teasing it with a pink flower. Andy Warhol holds an open book and looks directly at the viewer in a promotional photoshoot. Andy Warhol stands facing front balancing a small television against his hip in a Japanese ad. Andy Warhol poses outdoors with a silent film camera. Andy Warhol, wearing a black turtleneck and with hair extremely disheveled looks at the viewer with an intense expression. A person uses a large brush to apply cosmetics to a seated person's jawline. Andy Warhol as a young man sits with his chin in his hands. Front page of the New York Post with the headline "Andy Warhol Fights for Life". ]]> https://www.warhol.org/perry-high-school/feed/ 0 Surviving High School… The Second Time Around https://www.warhol.org/surviving-high-school-the-second-time-around/ https://www.warhol.org/surviving-high-school-the-second-time-around/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:32:50 +0000 http://blog.warhol.org/?p=244 For most people, once they graduate from high school, they take on new endeavors.  Whether it is higher education, joining the workforce or joining the military, they move on and high school becomes a distant memory.  Although it has become easier than ever to keep in touch with friends from long ago, you never really return to your old stomping grounds… unless you decide to become an educator.

Through the museum’s Artist In-school Partnerships, I have been asked to go back to my Alma Mater, Perry High School, and work with a couple of the Visual Arts classes.  For the past couple of weeks, I have been visiting Perry along with Leah, our School Programs Coordinator here at the Warhol.  We are working on a unit that introduces the students to the life and work of Andy Warhol while comparing him to more contemporary artists like Shepard Fairey and Ludovica Gioscia.  Essentially the students will be designing their own silkscreens and print on wallpaper that will be used to create an installation in the school.

Going back to Perry was like entering some sort of parallel universe.  The classes I’m visiting start well before I normally start work at the Warhol and it makes me wonder how I ever got up that early for school.  Granted that I was rarely on time for first period, it is still super early in my opinion.  Not to my surprise, Perry essentially looked the same and yes, it even smelled the same.  Some of the administration and faculty recognized me and gave me a warm welcoming (although I have a feeling that they are actually thinking I am my younger sister that was way more involved in school than I was) while others mistaken me as a student roaming the halls instead of being in class .  There were some familiar faces from my graduating class that have also taken the educator route in life.  They too have been thrown back into this parallel universe.

I give my high school teachers (and any teacher really) alot of credit for what they do day in and day out.  High school students are a tough crowd and they take a while to warm up to you.  I always wonder “is this what I was like when I was younger?!?”.  Here I am, interrupting their daily routine with a PowerPoint about some man that they’ve never heard of, that has a museum that they had no idea existed in their city and top it off by asking them to do an art project.  I can see how it can get frustrating for them, but like any teacher, I hope that they will eventually understand why I’m putting such an effort into getting my point across.

All in all, I’m pretty excited to share my knowledge and excitement for the wonderful world of art and Andy Warhol.  Here are some examples of the small projects we have done so far:

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