Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) - Scaling Nature: Free Art Workshop This Friday

 

Friday Workshop Series February 3rd, 3:30 - 6:30pm

PAPER MAKING with Michele Brody (in relation to the exhibition "Scaling Nature")

For the first workshop in our "Friday Workshop Series", learn the art of making paper and paper collage from natural materials with Michele Brody, one of the artists from BRAC's current gallery exhibition Scaling Nature, on view until March 4th. Participants will learn how to make their own sheets of handmade paper in order to collage with found natural materials, such as dried flowers and leaves, while collaborating with Ms. Brody on a future installation of origami butterflies folded out of handmade paper from milkweed plants and inscribed with personal migration stories. All participants will be able to bring home their own handmade sheets of paper at the end of the workshop. Donations for materials are greatly welcomed.

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About the Artist/Teacher: Michele Brody has been working with BRAC since 2010. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. Utilizing her strong background in the liberal arts, Michele creates site-specific, mixed-media installations and works of public art that are generated by the history, culture, environment, and architecture of a wide range of exhibition spaces. BRAC's current exhibition, Scaling Nature, includes the debut of her newest installation “Nature in Absentia: A Lost Marshland,” which illustrates how the loss of natural biodiversity in The Bronx is in stark contrast to the borough’s ever expanding racial and cultural diversity. The installation is a 9'3" high by 8'10" diameter cyclorama composed of extra-large hanging sheets of double-sided handmade paper depicting local Cattails (Typha latifolia) cast in relief with regenerated pulp made from non-native/invasive phragmites reeds (Phragmites australis.) The exterior of the cyclorama represents a well-lit healthy marshland that the public will be invited to walk around towards a narrow entrance into a darkened interior revealing an environment in distress. For more information about the exhibition, visit https://bronxriverart.org/gallery

Up to date proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for all ages for entry to the gallery Attendees will also be required to be masked.