Celebrating Women Past & Present: Collage of Jann Haworth & Liberty Blake

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Kolaj Editor Ric Kasini Kadour talks to Haworth & Blake about The Work in Progress mural; making art as a mother-daughter team; and more.

Jann Haworth was a leading figure in the British Pop Art scene of the 1960s when the Beatles asked her and her then-husband, Peter Blake, to make the album cover for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which won four Grammys in 1967. The cover became one of the most famous album covers of all time. Over time, Haworth came to see a problem. Of the seventy-five luminaries in the collage, only twelve were women. In 2016, Haworth teamed up with her daughter, collage artist Liberty Blake, to make The Work in Progress mural to correct the oversight. A community-driven effort, Haworth and Blake created workshops that taught people how to turn a photograph into a stencil. The women in the mural span time and geography. The iconic image of Rosa Parks holding her arrest number stands between Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth I. Princess Diana peeks over the shoulder of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Celebrities mingle with scientists and mathematicians. Yayoi Kusama appears in her polka dot dress. An article about the mural appears in <a href="http://kolajmagazine.com/content/issues/kolaj-31/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kolaj #31</a>.In this virtual event, Kolaj Magazine Editor Ric Kasini Kadour will interview Haworth and Blake about The Work in Progress mural; collage&#x27;s role in the British Pop Art scene of the 1960s; making art as a mother-daughter team; and how art can teach us and help us remember our history.ABOUT JANN HAWORTHAmerican Pop artist Jann Haworth is the daughter of ceramist, printmaker and painter Miriam Haworth and art director Ted Haworth. She studied at UCLA, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Slade School of Fine Art in London. First exhibiting in 1963, she has had, to date, twenty-four solo exhibitions. She was the co-creator of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover with her then-husband Peter Blake. Moving to Sundance, Utah in 1997, she founded the Sundance Art Shack Studios, Hot-Glass Recycling Works and co-founded the Sundance Mountain Charter School. While her main focus today is fine art patched canvases, she has expanded her work into public art murals in Salt Lake City, having directed nine large-scale collaborative projects in the city. The most recent of these is a 6,000 square-foot mural on a seven-story building, Utah Women 2020, which celebrates the 19th Amendment. Besides winning a Grammy for her contributions to the Sgt. Pepper&#x27;s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, she is the recipient of both the Utah Governor&#x27;s Award for the Arts and an Artist Achievement Award from the Mayor of Salt Lake City for her contributions to the arts. She lives and works in Utah. Learn more at <a href="http://www.jannhaworth.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.jannhaworth.com</a>ABOUT LIBERTY BLAKE Liberty Blake is originally from London. She attended The Looking Glass School, founded by her mother, Jann Haworth. She also attended Sydney Place for art foundation and studied illustration at the Bath Academy of Art. The first of her many large-scale wall collages was exhibited in 2007 as part of the “337 Project” in Salt Lake City, and currently, she is the collage artist for the ongoing 60&#x27; Work In Progress mural. Her personal collage work explores the themes of wilderness, neglected urban space, collecting and the appreciation of worn things. Her work is held in public and private collections in the United Kingdom and United States. She lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more in the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory and at <a href="https://www.libertyblakecollage.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.libertyblakecollage.com</a> and on Instagram<a href="https://www.instagram.com/libertyblakecollage/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> @libertyblakecollage</a>.ABOUT KOLAJ LIVE ONLINEKolaj LIVE Online is a series of virtual programs in the form of forums, panels, workshops, artist talks, studio visits, and other activities that allow people to come together, learn and talk about collage, and connect in real time to the collage community. Our goal is to bring the community together in a spirit of mutual support and fellowship.Kolaj LIVE Online manifests Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute by bringing together artists, curators, and writers to share ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. Learn more at the <a href="http://www.kolajinstitute.org/kolaj-live-online/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SERIES WEBSITE</a>.

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