Lifelong Studio: Collaging With Exhibiting Artist Hedwig Brouckaert
LIFELONG STUDIO: COLLAGING
WITH EXHIBITING ARTIST HEDWIG BROUCKAERT
Thursday, May 28, 2026 • 3:00 – 5:00 PM
For Adults Age 55+
Free! Registration Required
As part of The Bronx Museum’s Lifelong Studio program, offering free art-making workshops to adults aged 55 and older, we are delighted to welcome artist Hedwig Brouckaert to teach this one-session collaging class titled “Material and Energy Transmutation.”
Brouckaert previously participated in the Museum’s prestigious AIM Fellowship—a career accelerator for the most promising artists based in NYC. Her intricate work, Anthropocene rock garden (new earth), 2025, is currently on view in The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection.
The artist describes “Material and Energy Transmutation” as follows: The workshop will begin with a discussion about the materials Brouckaert uses in her artistic practice – expanded polystyrene debris that she collects from NYC’s waterways, and magazines – which she transforms to address environmental issues.
Brouckaert will lead a short grounding exercise inspired by Qigong practice, which can transform negative emotions into healing and positive energy. Participants will then engage in a hands-on collage workshop, working with magazines and waste packaging, deconstructing and transforming messages from advertising and mass media into a new narrative.
About Hedwig Brouckaert
Hedwig Brouckaert is a Belgian-American artist living in NYC, who transforms the destructive remnants of consumer culture – mass media imagery and waste expanded polystyrene that she collects from NYC waterways – into introspective and tactile sculptures and installations. She exhibited her work internationally, including at The Bronx Museum, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (BE), the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (TH), VOLTA NY with Jan Dhaese Gallery, and Pallazo Vendramin Costa (Venice, IT). Brouckaert has been awarded fellowships, including the AIM program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, LMCC Governors Island Art Center Residency, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio (IT), Liguria Study Center Bogliasco (IT), Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Hafnarborg Museum of Iceland, Yaddo (NY), and grants from FST Studio Projects Fund, Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, and the Flemish Government in Belgium. She received an MFA from the University of California, Davis, after completing a Masters in sculpture at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool and a Postgraduate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium.
Images of artist Hedwig Brouckaert with her work Anthropocene rock garden (new earth), 2025, at The Bronx Museum, Photos by Argenis Apolinario, 2026.
