Paper Garden Displays: A Family Workshop
Paper Garden Displays: A Family Workshop
$40 per family
Come craft with your kids!
Paper sculpting is the art of taking something 2-dimensional and turning it into a 3-dimensional sculpture. In this class, families will work together to make their own container gardens out of paper! We’ll be using colored paper and colored pencils to create cacti, succulents, flowers, air plants, and pots. Through each plant, families will learn a variety of 3D paper sculpting techniques.
Paper artist and graphic designer Marisa Green will teach adults and children basic paper craft techniques and guide them in creating their paper plants and pots. Students will learn fundamentals like cutting, folding, and scoring, layering graduated paper shapes, curling, creating structure, and other methods. (Some precut shapes will be available for the youngest kids.) Whether true to life or fantastical, these colorful botanical displays will cheer up any room in your home.
Each family will go home with their paper planter to help welcome the beginning of Spring. This workshop is geared towards children ages 5+.
Saturday, April 6, 2024 | 1:30pm to 4pm
Bio:
Marisa Green is a contemporary paper artist and graphic designer who holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her immersive site-specific installations, kinetic sculptural objects, and 2-D works from cut paper have been exhibited in galleries and organizations such as Oregon Contemporary and Nike WHQ. Her work has been featured in publications, including Colossal, Strictly Paper, The Jealous Curator, and Create Magazine.
As a graphic designer for the past 20 years, Green’s career has traversed creating paper crafts and kids’ printables for HP, DreamWorks, and Disney, branding and web design for small businesses, and leading communications design for Nike’s innovation and operations teams. She previously served as president of AIGA Portland, the professional association of design, and co-founded Women in Design, an initiative supporting women and mothers in the design industry. She is currently a member of the Guild of American Papercutters and Studio Place Arts. You can find her work at marisagreenart.com