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Teen Workshop (Teen Art Lab)

April 19, 1 – 3 PM

Facilitated by: Valerie Fuchs and Uhma Janus
Project: In collaboration with MaybeItsFate, we are excited to offer a teen workshop with “Water Studies: Expressions and Impressions”. This workshop will include a segment screening and short discussion of Ken Burn’s film “Leonardo da Vinci,” followed by hands-on workshops facilitated by Louisville artists Valerie Fuchs and Uhma Janus. Discover the effect of our emotions on the natural world with a scientific experiment led by Valerie Fuchs. A painting session with Uhma Janus will follow our studies, inviting us to capture the expressions crystallized in Fuch’s experiments.  Experience the science of emotions and water in this two-part workshop.  This workshop is for teens ages 14 – 17.

Teaching Artist Bios

Valerie Sullivan Fuchs is an award-winning artist who has exhibited in several museums including Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 21c Museums (OH,AR,KY) and Speed Art Museum. Internationally she has exhibited in the American Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden, Non Grata Festival, Pärnu, Estonia, Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria, BELEF Art Festival, Belgrade, Serbia. Her artworks are in several contemporary art collections including the 21c Museum, Cleveland Clinic, SNAP and Muhammad Ali Int’l Airport. In New York, her work has been shown at Spring/Break, Works on Water/Underwaternyc and the Painting Center. Reviews of her artwork have been by Art Papers, Dialogue, Leonardo and American Theatre. Recent residencies include Berlin Collectiv, Spain’22 and Mustarinda, Finland,’19. She is a writer with published articles in an anthology Beauty Unlimited by Peg Brand, LEO Weekly, and Pitch Magazine. She studies the ephemeral in nature, through layered digital imagery, videos, NFTs, installations, & integrates sustainable energy into artworks. She lives and works in rural Kentucky.

Uhma Janus is a self-taught artist. Her work deals with the representation of the essence of reality by visualizing its elements as independent and in the dynamic interstitial space that is enlivened through their connection. Such representations are imbued with her interests in the fundamental, in the dynamism of complex systems, and in the disciplines of Geometry, Physics, and Microbiology.

Janus’ work has been exhibited regionally, including at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, Dutoit Gallery in Dayton, OH, Contemporary Capacity Exchange Gallery in Louisville, KY, Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Louisville City Hall. She has led an adult workshop at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY. Her work is included in the Larry Shapin and Ladonna Nicolas Collection.

Janus was born and raised in Leon, Mexico. She completed her coursework for a Bachelor in Science in Physics by the University of Guanajuato, with interest in theoretical Particle Physics. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisville.

Janus lives in Louisville, KY.

Corporate funding for LEONARDO da VINCI was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by The Better Angels Society and by its individual members The Paul and Sandra Montrone Family; Stephen A. Schwarzman; Diane and Hal Brierley; Carol and Ned Spieker; Michael and Sandy Collins; Mario J. Gabelli; The Lynch Foundation; McCloskey Family Charitable Trust; Cappy and Janie McGarr; and John and Leslie McQuown. Funding was also provided by Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha Darling; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation.