Workshop: Constellations in Paper

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“Constellations in Paper” workshop with Anne Beck and Michelle Wilson.
In this workshop, learn the basics of embroidery on paper. Bring a design of your own or use one provided to sew a design onto a sheet of decorative paper. Embroidery on paper can be a little different that the traditional form on fabric, but still can create a wondrous and exquisite design.  At the end of this workshop, this embroidered paper can stand alone, or participants will have the option of turning it into a cover for a handmade book! 
No embroidery or bookbinding experience necessary, all materials provided. A personalized workshop with very limited spaces—reserve your seat in advance!
Anne Beck works collaboratively and independently in a variety of media from painting to print and book making to public intervention. Broadly, she is exploring the roles of amateur naturalist and lay surveyor of the current landscape—collecting specimens and recording data, cataloguing that which seems useful, and investigating further that which seems impermeable. This is all in the context of envisioning a sustainable path forward for herself and the planet, which is often a playful exercise in the face of absurd and complex circumstance. Beck has received residency awards from the Virginia Center of Creative Arts, Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, was Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University, and is a 2015 recipient of the Fath Scholarship for Artists and Artisans of the Book from the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia. www.annebeckprojects.com
Michelle Wilson is a papermaker, printmaker, book and installation artist. She is also one-half of the ongoing collaborative, political art team BOOK BOMBS. She has exhibited regionally, nationally and  internationally. Her work is in significant international collections. She is a past Artist-in-Residence at the David and Julia White Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica, the Jentel Artist Residency Program. Grants received include a Puffin Foundation Grant, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Project Streaming Grant, and an Artist-Investigator Grant from San Francisco’s Triangle Arts Lab. Creative Capital designated her as an “On Our Radar” artist in 2015. www.michellewilsonprojects.com

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