Collage: Past & Present By Joan Hall
Discover how artists transform everyday objects into powerful works of art.
In this lecture-slideshow, Joan Hall explores how artists have repurposed ordinary materials—such as money, spare tires, and even their own blood—into striking creative expressions.
Through the lens of collage and assemblage, the presentation features works spanning from 12th-century Japan to contemporary photo illustration.
Wednesday, April 1st | 3:00 pm
Sala Quetzal in Biblioteca Pública
Free (Voluntary donation for La Biblioteca)
In English
Joan Hall
New York–based artist, illustrator, and educator whose career bridges dance, theater design, collage, and assemblage. Trained at the Martha Graham Dance Studio and the Juilliard School, she later shifted toward visual arts, developing parallel careers in commercial illustration and fine art. Since 1978 she has taught collage at the School of Visual Arts in New York, after being invited by Milton Glaser.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico, and her illustration work has appeared in publications including TIME and The New York Times. Her collage and assemblage illustrations are part of the permanent collection of The Norman Rockwell Museum.
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