Time to Registar!
Oct 6-11, 2024 I am also very excited to offer “Materials As Metaphor” as my favorite teaching experience RETREAT STYLE at ARROWMONT SCHOOL of CRAFTS Fall 2024.
Annie Albers said “…materials is means of communication”
What histories and stories do materials hold? This question can inform and expand your creative process by leading to new material choices and the skills needed to incorporate them into wearable objects or small assemblages. In this workshop, students will make cyanotypes to capture images, text, objects, or drawings on fiber or paper, then learn how to tone the final color. Students will learn a variety of jewelry and mixed media methods, including cold connections, various adhesives, setting methods, stitching, pegs, tabs, many varied ways to combine natural, found, and metal objects with your cyanotype images. Students may bring their own collections of images and ephemera to use or share. Students can also use the instructor’s collections plus draw on natural findings from the surrounding area. There will be feedback, discussion, journalling, and research in order to uncover material associations. Over the course of the workshop students will synthesize their discoveries into either a werable object or a few mixed media wall pieces with layers of meaning.
Aug 13. Sat 1-4 FREE Cyanotype Workshop Greensboro Cultural Center, GROW Residency space
Aug. 14 Sun. 2-5 Enamel Pendant Workshop $5 material fee (cash/ Venmo at workshop) Greensboro Cultural Center, GROW space
Aug. 20 Sat. 1-4 FREE Cyanotype Workshop Greensboro Culture Center, Grow Residency space
Aug. 21 Sun. 2-5 Enamel Pendant Workshop $5 material fee (cash/Venmo at workshop) Greensboro Cultural Center, GROW space
New Workshop: Mapping Nature
3 hours Saturday 1/22 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ
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Create a mixed media copper pendant "Mapping Nature" inspired by climate change data. We will collage elements of paper printed with isobar (weather) maps, flood maps, and colored acetate then sandwich the composition between clear mica sheets and copper washer frames. Rivets will hold all the materials together. Use of jewelry tools and patina to add hammered texture and contrast to the metal will also be taught. Beginner appropriate.
Thea Clark is a jeweler and artist. She is a recipient of an Individual Artist fellowship, granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2012. Her work has appeared in numerous group shows nationally and internationally, recently Site Effects in Munich and Baltimore Jewelry Center, including Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City and La Frontera at the Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City. In 2014, Thea was featured in a two-person show at the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts and a solo exhibitions of sculpture and installation at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, as well as a site specific installation with jewelry “Cryosphere So Blue”, at Velvet DaVinci, San Francisco, CA. Her work can be seen in seven publications, including Lark Publications: 500 Felted Objects, Showcase 500 Necklaces, and Push Jewelry. Thea held a 2013 artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center, artist talk at Glassell School of Art (Texas) and visiting artist at Boise State University. Her work is in private collections in the United States and Japan.