Artist Workshops
Penland School of Craft
Exploring Paper as Sculpture | Papermaking – Spring Concentration
Event Details:
- Date: March 2 – April 25, 2025 (8 Weeks)
- Time: 2:00 P.M. (PDT)
- Speaker: Jo Stealy
- Session: Create small-scale objects or large-scale installations using handmade paper. The workshop will begin with fiber processing for paper pulp, including methods for beating fibers to create specific qualities in the paper: opaque/translucent, low or high shrinkage, thick/thin, delicate/strong, etc. Then we will cover sheet forming, pigmenting pulp, pulp painting, collage, stencils, casting into found molds and cloth molds, joining cast elements, armatures, draping, and other approaches to developing 3-D forms. After three weeks of experimentation, students will use their preferred techniques to create a new body of work. The focus will be on artistic concepts and personal vision for the materials. All levels.
Past Workshops
Virtually Woven 2024
Basketry: Gathered, Alternative, Installed
Event Details:
- Date: July 26, 2024
- Time: 2:00 P.M. (PDT)
- Speaker: Jo Stealy
- Session: The Mind of a Maker
We are thrilled to announce that Jo Stealy will be a featured speaker at Virtually Woven 2024! Don’t miss her insightful session, “The Mind of a Maker,” on July 26, 2024, at 2:00 P.M. (PDT).
Making Your Mark
DATES: OCTOBER 20–22, 2023
LOCATION: MU FIBERS STUDIO, COLUMBIA, MO
INSTRUCTORS: JO STEALEY & LISSA HUNTER
MAXIMUM # OF STUDENTS: 14
COST: $180 (SOLD OUT)
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.
“For me, art is a meditation, a response, a question, but most of all it is a way of life.” – Jo Stealey
[email protected] | Fiber Artist | Columbia, MO