Modern Pop Art Experience!

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Arts & Crafts, Workshop

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Kids, Teens, Adults, All ages
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American Pop Artist Michael Albert was born & raised in New York on Long Island where he graduated from Lawrence High School & then, New York University with a business degree. He currently lives with his wife Erynn & works in White Plains, New York. Together they have 4 grown children. 

Albert is the author of an artist autobiography titled, “An Artist’s America” (Henry Holt, 2008) and is nationally known for making collage artworks from Cereal boxes & other printed cardboard consumer brand packages. His work has been described as a cross between Pop Art, Cubism & Recycling with a wide range of subjects and themes that he explores including many text-based works. He just calls it “Art”. 

Albert’s Pop Art 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 things (products & objects) & subjects (current events, etc.). Albert’s “Portrait of An American Classic”, Frosted Flakes Box Collage was his official beginning as a Modern Pop Artist back in 1996. He calls that collage, ’The Birth of Cerealism’!  Since that breakthrough creation, he has created over 700 collages from Cereal boxes like this, and thousands more with different themes, all artworks using the same everyday materials. He says that his true goal in all of this work & effort is to create a masterpiece worthy of hanging in a major museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, the Louvre in Paris, The Tate in London, etc.! 

This summer he will be bringing his “Modern Pop Art Experience” Art programs to over 75 cities in 7 states including: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and New York.  Over the past 15 years he has been running this art enrichment program and brought it to over 1,200 libraries, museums, schools, art & community centers in 48 of the United States so far, with only Alaska & Hawaii left to complete the 50! He is truly on a mission to bring the art to the people!

He is excited to bring his art & program to Brookfield, CT for the first time!