Join printmaker Tressa Jones in creating colorful one-of-a-kind prints from repurposed materials and found objects. Mix colors, design compositions, use new tools, and operate an etching press.
Tag: sustainability
MAKESHOP: Sustainable Sewing
Create a more sustainable future using fabric scraps and sewing skills in MAKESHOP! How might you repurpose small pieces of fabric that might otherwise end up in a landfill? How can you use sewing techniques to mend fabric items?
MAKESHOP: Recycled Sculpture
Join us in MAKESHOP as we reuse and repurpose household materials into sculptures of all shapes and sizes. Find inspiration in the shapes, patterns, textures, and colors of everyday objects, then try various attachment methods to build your own creation.
MAKESHOP: Recycled Sculpture
Join us in MAKESHOP as we reuse and repurpose household materials into sculptures of all shapes and sizes. Find inspiration in the shapes, patterns, textures, and colors of everyday objects, then try various attachment methods to build your own creation.
MAKESHOP: Unconventional Weaving
Join us in MAKESHOP to explore weaving with unconventional materials. Add warp strings to all kinds of looms, from sticks to recycled containers, then weave using a variety of materials as weft. What textures will you create? What kinds of things might you reuse for weaving?
MAKESHOP: Reclaim Reuse Recycle
Join us in MAKESHOP as we reclaim, reuse, and recycle all kinds of things into art! We’ll explore shape, size, color and texture of recycled materials as we design, create, and build collaboratively and independently. How will you attach different materials? What shapes can you create? How can you use your imagination to help you reuse materials?
MAKESHOP: Cardboard Building
What’s special about the way cardboard can bend, move, fold, and provide support? Make new discoveries about this everyday material as we build sculptures, structures, and more using all kinds of cardboard.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Fusion
Explore how heat changes the properties of plastic! Join us in MAKESHOP as we use heat tools to fuse recycled plastic together. What textures and colors do you see? How can you make something new out of plastic scraps?
fashion panel: how to make it sustainable
Learn how professionals are changing the fashion industry through sustainable practices such as ethically-sourced, made and recycled garments and accessories, reusing textile discards and vintage/secondhand items and styling.
Panelists:
- Nisha Blackwell, KNOTZLAND
- Brooke Bryant, Style Me BB
- Bennet Graves, Wavelength Vintage
- Ava Lancaster, Day Owl
- Bradley Hill, Arts Ed Collaborative – Moderator
This is an all-ages, free event. Register here.
Please note that masks are required for this event.
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