South County Art Association
Helme House
2587 Kingstown Road
Kingston, RI 02881
401-783-2195
Classes and Workshops
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HANDMADE PAPER BOOKS
with CATHERINE FLORES
Introduction to Bookmaking Part I
A great class for beginners! Learn to make three different handmade books in one day. Explore basic bookbinding techniques of folding, sewing, cutting. You will produce a non-adhesive book using the pamphlet stitch, the traditional Japanese side-stab binding, and a traditional accordian.
Catherine has a Masters Degree in Creative Arts & Learning and Education from Lesley University. She has taught this course to both adults and children for many years, and she will provide beautiful materials for each book you will be making.
One day workshop, Saturday, April 19
9 - 1 pm
$30 members, $40 non members
A $15 materials fee to be paid to the instructor at the start of class.
CREATIVE COLLAGE WORKSHOP with HIROKO SHIKASHIO
Find a new and interesting way to create collages from ordinary materials that are around you. It could be your new discovery in creative expressions, as well as picking gems among something you thought useless. Work through fun ways to create collage works and experience the joy of magic in colors, cultivating new sensitivities in design and texture. Let your imagination fly and be inspired by working with others.
Bring inspirational materials such as different textured papers and color, paintings, drawings and photographs, threads and fabrics, art magazines, wall paper and found objects (feather, dried leaves, etc.). Material that attracts you and takes you to creative imagination works best!
Hiroko has works that have been exhibited in both one person and group shows, including Happy White Gallery, SoHo Galleries in New York City, Kawakami Gallery in Tokyo, and Yu-Art Gallery in Nagano Japan. Her collage works are published in the book, “New Art International” 2001
This stone carving class will help beginner or advanced student alike learn techniques required for stone sculpture. Each week, Alan, will help students with all the stages of stone shaping using hand tools, including rough shaping, finishing, polishing, and mounting of a stone sculpture. Alabaster is available for purchase from the instructor. Students should bring a 1 1/2 lb. soft iron mallet, a medium point-chisel, a 2 - tooth stone chisel, a flat stone chisel, safety glasses, and thin work gloves. For questions about acquiring tools, please call the Art Association at 783-2195.
Alan is an accomplished, award-winning stone carver who shows his work locally in exhibitions and galleries. He has worked extensively in marble, granite, alabaster, and sandstone.
6:30 - 9:30 pm
$130 members, $165 non-members
South County Art Association, Helme House, 2587 Kingstown Road, Kingston, RI 02881