Paper Sculpture: Multiples, Mobiles, and Art

Explore paper as sculpture while experimenting with surface, structure, and embellishment.

Paper Enclosures: Integrated Case and Contents

Make a sculptural / architectural enclosure for artwork, treasures or ephemera. You’ll design and construct a unique paper based case; equal parts functional and expressive.

Mini-Paper Book Mobiles Available for booking

In this fun and engaging class, we will cut, carve and sculpt hand-sewn signatures to create original paper mobile installations. Combine texture, composition, text and mark making with beads, metal, wire, bamboo and found treasures to play with light, shadow, air and movement.
Class Limit:12

Ancient Roots / Contemporary Baskets Available for booking

AGE: 16+
SKILL LEVEL: All Skill Levels
TUITION: TBA
MATERIAL FEE: TBA
Location: TBA

Basketry, utilitarian and ceremonial, holds extraordinary possibilities for personal expression. Traditional foraging basket designs will inspire our contemporary vessels. A sense of fun and adventure guides us as we explore unconventional materials rooted in old techniques. Work with laminated papers, recycled metals, paint and found objects to create your own sacred object.

Luminarias: Let There Be Light
Available for booking

Use malleable light metal to create luminarias with traditional and unconventional tools and techniques. Use wire, found objects, trinkets and treasures to embellish your creations. At the close of our workshop, we will gather, light our luminarias and reflect on the process.

Contemporary Foraging Basket Available for booking

In the beginning….(now, there’s an opening….) We will focus on structure and technique to create our unconventional versions of this traditional basket. Workshop participants are then free to explore embellishment, texture and color.

We will work with accessible materials: cardboard, recycled metals, beads, leather, linen, paint and found objects.

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Adventures at Sea Available for booking

On this seafaring adventure we create shadow puppets, treasure maps,
costumes, props, and mixed-media sculpture. We'll end the week with a presentation for family and friends.

Taught by artists Kathy Karbo and Sarah Ferguson

Circus Art AdventureAvailable for booking

A children's multi-media arts camp inspired by Alexander Calder's "Circus".
Ages 7 -12
Taught by artists Kathy Karbo and Sarah Ferguson

For this circus we will create:

• Shadow Puppets
• Painted Papers
• Masks and costume props
• Mixed media sculpture

Puppet Play ResidencyAvailable for booking

Painted Paper Puppets
Shadow Puppets
The projects support literacy, math and science studies.

We team teach to provide the richest experience for students and the community. In addition, we will include pre-residency trainings for staff and classroom volunteers. This approach ensures a good foundation to build relationships in this shared arts adventure!

Our comprehensive residency promotes long-lasting benefits for all participants: Teachers, volunteers and students will gain experience with new tools to investigate the core curriculum, themselves and the world through the arts. Different learning styles are accommodated as we engage imagine and create. Active participation in the arts increases our understanding of ourselves, the world and our place in it.

Kathy Karbo and Sarah Ferguson

Shadow Puppet WorkshopsAvailable for booking

SHADOW PUPPET ADVENTURE:
All ages will enjoy working with a variety of tools and unconventional materials to build shadow puppets. Play with paper, wire and found objects to create characters and settings; experiment with scale, music and sound effects to enrich the puppet parade. Perfect for Family Arts Nights! Art Parties, Teacher Trainings, No Student Days!

Shadow Puppet Haiku Project rehearsal

Recycled Metal Frame Available for booking

AGE: 16+
SKILL LEVEL: All Skill Levels

Handsome Mexican tinwork inspires us! Design your own recycled metal frame. Transform light malleable metals embellished with found objects by using both traditional and unconventional tools and techniques. Explore form, function, texture, light and shadow while adding fun decorative touches. A sensitive, sculptural approach will guide you in making a tin frame that will beautifully house the art inside.