Learn about the background and personal meaning of historical ex voto paintings, then create your version in the studio with Isa Goico ’24.

Featured in the current exhibition Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas, ex votos were originally devotional artworks meant to express gratitude for divine intervention. Your contemporary version can commemorate an important life event, celebrate an achievement, or appreciate a new season. There will be supplies for painting and collage, and the final product can be representational or abstract.

Space is limited; email eas8@cornell.edu to register. (Please note that the afternoon session is for Cornell students only.)

This workshop is part of the Johnson Museum’s Art and Wellness series, made possible by a generous member of the Museum’s Advisory Council. Our program provides opportunities for community members to explore hands-on, artistic self-expression and learn new skills in a friendly environment.