6×6 Art-Making with Luda Begley and Joan Margaret!
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
137 East Ave.
Jan 3, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us for our first 6×6 art-making event of 2025! Local artists Luda Begley and Joan Margaret will each lead activities to help you make an artwork for 6×6:

“Channel Your Inner Impressionist” with Joan Margaret. Joan will inspire you to use collage, markers and other materials to create a one of a kind, colorful, impressionistic 6×6 for the exhibit. Come join the fun! @joan_margaret_art

“Visualize Poetry” with Luda Begley. Bring an image from a famous poem to life with a set of simple hints, tools and guidance. Let’s SEE poetry in the upcoming 6×6 exhibition! @lunar_berserkr_art

Each artist will lead two sessions, which will begin at 6:00pm and 7:30pm. Come get creative to start off the new year!
Admission is $2 / free for members and refreshments will be served.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ludmila Begley is an artist, poet, writer, translator and editor based in Rochester, NY. She was born in Chisinau, Moldova, to a bilingual (Romanian and Russian) family, and became trilingual (English) by the age of 11. She holds two Master’s Degrees with distinction: one in American Studies (American post-modernist literature) from Moldova State University, and another – in Creative Writing from the University of Warwick. Her first novel, ‘Empty and Want to Sleep’ was a Chapter One Promotions finalist in 2012, and a number of her poems were shortlisted in Bridport Prize for Poetry in 2021 and in 2023. She started to work in ink graphics in autumn of 2020, and her work has been featured in a number of group exhibitions in and around Rochester, NY. She is currently expanding her artwork into the realm of mixed graphic media and painting, experimenting with colour, whilst still continuing her work in black and white ink.

Joan Nichols, the owner of Joan Margaret LLC, is an Artist, Creative Entrepreneur, Painting Teacher for the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) and a Trauma Informed Yoga Educator for over 25 years. Joan studied fine art in London, England and in Italy. She has her BFA and started out as a graphic designer then a jewelry designer. As a native Rochesterian, she absolutely loves Western NY, its art scene and is inspired by the surrounding area. Joan is the mother of two wonderful young men and had been married to her beloved for over 31 years. Her favorite thing to do is hang out with her family if she’s not painting. To learn more visit her website at: https://joanmargaret.com/