Kelly Knaga 2024 — The Joy Project

Continuing the Art of Play
Friday March 8, 2024

Artist: Kelly Knaga

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Artist:

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Kelly Knaga (she /her) is an artist, illustrator, and muralist living and working on a beautiful piece of land just outside of Chicago. She designs fun projects for her clients by day while renovating a house and building her dream vegetable garden with her partner and 2 beautiful kiddos on nights and weekends.

Knaga’s work is influenced by nature, including her childhood growing up on her grandparents’ farm and living on the west coast. Her works investigate flora, natural landscapes, and relationships by layering shape, image, color, and story. The use of color exploits historical and sometimes fictional references through anthropological studies, mapmaking, and storytelling.

Knaga is also a design educator and co-founder of Art and Action Community Lab. Knaga’s work can be found in private collections, galleries, public art spaces, magazines, department stores, and on physical and digital products.

Warm-up + Project:
Inspiration images below.

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Warm-up

We will begin with just plain fun, taking cues from Kelly Knaga's daily practice of making doodles. I think we have been down this road before!!

Grab paper, markers, paint pens, colored pencils, and begin anywhere on the page. Take your lines, colors, and shapes on a whimsical journey creating your own personal "JOY" map.

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Project #1

Please print a couple of black and white landscapes (link here) or use a copy of your own photo. You may also tear out a picture from a magazine to work with.

We will alter the black and white landscapes using markers, Posca pens, and/or colored pencils.

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Project #2

Using colored papers, found magazine clippings, or watercolor we will create simple, colorful collages inspired by Knaga’s shape paintings.

So much inspiration. ✨Let's have some fun!

Artist Info:

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Arts + Action | Community Lab

Warm-up Inspiration - Line Doodles