MOFA WORKSHOP - Making Your Mark (SOLD OUT!)
L: Talking Sticks - Conversation 1 (detail), JO STEALEY R: Detail, LISSA HUNTER
DATES: OCTOBER 20–22, 2023
LOCATION: MU FIBERS STUDIO, COLUMBIA, MO
INSTRUCTORS: JO STEALEY & LISSA HUNTER
MAXIMUM # OF STUDENTS: 14
COST: $180
Eligibility: Open to current MoFA members. Join MOFA here.
Workshop Description: Marks and the material used as the “canvas” are the foundation of all visual work. How these two elements are combined can define the effect of the final piece. Marks can be made with a pencil, brush, stitch, or any variety of tools. Marks include dots, dashes, lines, shapes and can even define volume. They can be random, geometric, or repeated in any variety of ways to create meaning and identify a personal style. Substrate material could be paper, cloth, metal, plastic, and two or three-dimensional. Beginning with a variety of materials and means to develop marks, we will explore how similar marks will change depending on the base material and the tool used to make marks. We will explore how to develop meaningful marks that are uniquely your own and applied to the work you are interested in developing.
JO STEALEY, Talking Sticks - Conversation 1
INSTRUCTOR - Jo Stealey has spent her life as an artist, educator and curator. Her practice encompasses two and three-dimensional textiles, basketry, and handmade paper. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the School of Art Granada Spain, the Windgate Gallery at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, the Springfield Art Museum, MO among others. She is a professor emerita, former chair of the Department of Art and founding Director for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Jo Stealey
INSTRUCTOR - Lissa Hunter has spent her life as a studio artist working in textiles, basketry, clay and drawing. Teaching, writing and curating are important aspects of her practice. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Museum of Art + Design in New York, and the Houston Museum of Art, among others. She is a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellow and a Maine Crafts Association Master Craft Artist, as well as a Life Trustee of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. LissaHunter.com
LISSA HUNTER
Materials - DO NOT BUY ANYTHING, PLEASE:
Variety of found and or recycled papers, cloth, plastics, metal 8.5”x11” approximately (different weights, textures, etc
Any medium that can make a mark - paint, markers, thread, pencils
Any tool that can make marks – brushes, stamps, sticks, found objects, etc
Needles, scissors, ruler, cutting mat (optional)
Threads (sewing, waxed linen, strings), sticks, staples, twist ties, etc., or other interlacing materials you use normally and perhaps 1 new item
Glue (sobo, glue stick, etc)
WORKSHOP HAS SOLD OUT - NO SPOTS AVAILABLE
Workshop questions? Email Becky Stevens at vicepresident.mofa@gmail.com