You will learn the sustainable art and practice of creating handmade paper with equipment you probably have at home! Utilizing kitchen blenders, handmade mould & deckles and recycled paper, you can create beautiful papers for your artistic practices, including collage, journaling, sculpture and more. Students will learn the Western dip method of papermaking with recycled
Clip clop back in time to experience the Port Oneida Rural Historic District the way they did in the late 1800s – early 1900s! Learn about the life of the early pioneers, and their landscape as we travel by horse and wagon through the fields and side roads of this significant agricultural community of over
This course/workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to use traditional flax processing equipment to create a “strick” of flax, which can then be spun into linen yarn. After a brief introduction of the presenters and description of the flax plant, the processes of rippling, breaking, scutching, hackling, and spinning will be discussed. Participants will
Try your hand at gel plate monoprinting to make decorative papers, postcards, and booklets. With gel plates, you can transfer drawings and images from a variety of media, and make botanical prints, graphic art, and collages. We will use the historic and cultural landscapes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as our muse for imagery,
