American pop artist and author Michael Albert will visit Woodward as part of his Midwest summer tour in a program sponsored by the Woodward Public Library.
Woodward Public Library will be hosting artist and author Michael Albert during its Summer Library Program
Albert, who lives and works in White Plains, New York, is nationally known for making collage artworks from cereal boxes and other consumer cardboard packaging, a method described as a cross between Pop Art, Cubism and recycling.
Albert’s Pop is often referred to as “modern” since he’s been creating it for the past 25 years and still creates new works on a regular basis, whereas the Pop Art movement began almost 70 years ago with the “old masters,” such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and others, who started creating art themed about everyday products and objects and current events.
His summer tour includes 40 Iowa cities. Albert is the author of the 2008 autobiography, “An Artist’s America.”
The artist will lead two art programs for the Woodward Public Library on Thursday, June 23. The programs include a presentation by the artist, a hands-on collage workshop and a free poster giveaway and signing.
For more information or to register for the event, contact Woodward Public Library Director Myrna Griffith at 515-438-2636.
