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Instructor: Mo Kelman
Monday - Friday
July 15 - 19
9am - 1pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
In this experimental workshop, students will learn lashing and random weaving methods for building skeletal structures with rattan and bamboo. On these frameworks, explore methods for building skins with rice papers, gut, and net making. Paintable graphite, acrylics, shellac and kakishibu tannin will further modify the structures and membrane surfaces. A series of guided exercises will prompt students to invent unique, original sculptural forms.
All levels welcome.
Mo Kelman is a sculptor, fiber artist, and former Professor of Art at the Community College of Rhode Island, where she taught for 36 years. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Mo has exhibited her work at Boston Sculptors Gallery; the Maiwa International Textile Symposium in Vancouver, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show; the British Crafts Centre; Korea’s Cheongju International Craft Biennale; the International Shibori Symposia in Nagoya, Japan and Hong Kong; and Brown University’s Bell Gallery. In 2012 she received an Artist’s Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Mo has taught workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, North Country Studio Workshops, Penland School of Craft, Maiwa (Vancouver), Snow Farm, Fibres West (Australia), the Kawashima Textile School (Japan), and Zijdelings (Netherlands).
instagram: @mo.kelman