About

This class was canceled by the instructor on 10-30. It was only up live for about an hour before the teacher canceled the class.

This three session workshop is a process driven experience where students will engage in constructing several different small scale mixed media objects, or vessels, using repetitive layering techniques.

These processes will include stitching, cold connections, and limited wax options, along with various forms of basketry skills. 

Students will be using unusual tactile materials such as Pacific Kelp, metal tape, bike tire tubing, paper, wire, rusty tidbits, and other found objects and miscellaneous goodies and recyclables. This “Candy Box Sampler” allows inquiring students of all levels to engage in creative play, gain off-beat skills in seeing “all materials as an option”, and it creates dialog for future innovation in one’s personal designs. Please take a look at Shannon Weber’s innovative work here.

Details:

Materials Fee: $125.  Materials include tactile materials such as kelp, metal tape, papers, wire, etc.

Skill Level: Universal.  All skill levels welcome

Ages: Ages 14+ Welcome.

Bring a bag lunch. We have a refrigerator for people to store their lunches and drinks!

Instructor Bio: 
Shannon Weber has been a working studio artist, designer and educator for 33 years working in “One-of-a-Kind” Fiber Mixed Media Sculpture and Objects. Her attraction to working with Fiber is in the options presented and ability to shape-shift when using a variety of materials. These include items locally sourced and collected in nature, along with reclaimed debris from construction sites, Oregon coastal beaches, and everyday human discards.

She applies basic ancient techniques using a mixture of repetitive layers of stitching, weaving, cold connections, painting, and encaustic. These multiple applications make it very easy to blend reclaimed metals, wire, rubber, paper, fabric, and organic materials of all kinds. Each layer of material mixed with different techniques begins to build the structure that gives the object or vessel its form and opens the door for interesting detail surface embellishment.

Shannon Weber’s works are exhibited both nationally and internationally and have graciously received numerous awards. They are also held in public and private collections along with being seen and featured in 48 publications worldwide. She currently lives and maintains a full-time studio in Cottage Grove, Oregon. 

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