Telling Our Story: Children's Workshop
Aug. 5-9
Telling Our Story: Children's Workshop
Tuition: $190
Studio Fee: 0
Enrollment Limit: 12
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Description: This workshop will feature Santa Fe fiber artist, Sarah Hewitt and based upon her experience working with Tjanpi Desert Weavers in Australia. Children will learn the art of storytelling through the creation of life-size woven characters and other props such as people, pets, wild animals, trucks and other everyday objects. The workshop will begin with a fable to be written as a group, children will then select characters from the story and settings to be created out of recycled basketry/weaving materials. Newspaper, cloth, grasses, plastic bags, yarns and twines will be transformed onto a "family". The children will get the opportunity to work with a 'professional artist' and complete a beautiful life-size scene/fable to be presented to families and friends on the final day of the workshop.
Activities/Ages: Children ages 8-15, workshop will begin 10:00am. and end at 4:00pm. Students may bring sack lunches and Spiro Arts will provide afternoon snacks.
Instructor: Sarah Hewitt lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and has achieved notoriety in multiple mediums. Her work has been exhibited around the country, as well as being published in Surface Design Journal, Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, Santa Fe Trends and Fiberarts. Recently, the artist was named one of the top emerging artists in New Mexico by Diane Karp of the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Santa Fean. Mainly comprised of large-scale sculptures, Hewitt's work utilizing textile techniques such as weaving and molded materials, layered with rich surfaces, patinated with waxes, tar and cements. Hewitt has studied and taught all ages and skill levels at schools and institutions including the Anderson Ranch ArtsCenter, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Rhode Island School of Art and Design. We are welcoming Sarah back for her second visit to Park City as she and her dog, Buster, were selected Resident Artists at Spiro Arts last April '08.