Instructor: Thomas Jackson
Monday - Friday*
June 16 - 20*
9am - 1pm
4 sessions, no class Thursday, June 19

Join us for a 4-day immersive workshop where art, sustainability, and collaboration meet in the creation of a unique outdoor sculpture. Using recycled fabric as our medium, participants will explore the intersections of installation art, land art, environmental art, and textile art.

Day 1, we’ll discuss the artistic genres that relate to our project, then we’ll brainstorm as we collaboratively sketch out a vision for our sculpture. (We may decide to work together on one large piece, or to split up into groups and make multiple smaller installations.)
Day 2 we’ll begin the hands-on work, as we bring our design(s) to life through collective creativity. Over Days 3 and 4, we’ll continue crafting, refining, and completing our piece(s), culminating in an installation (or installations) that harmonizes with the outdoor setting.

What to Bring: Fabric. We’ll have plenty on-hand, but participants are encouraged to supply their own as well. Whatever you might have lying around at home. Larger pieces are preferable to scraps, but everything is welcome. The more we have to work with the better. 

Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York working first in book publishing, then as a magazine editor. An interest in photography books eventually led him to pick up a camera, shooting Garry Winogrand-inspired street scenes, then landscapes, and finally the installation work he does today. Jackson’s work has been exhibited widely, including at The Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee and the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, CA, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Wired and elsewhere.  

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