Daily Star
---- — The Roxbury Arts Group and Catskill Guild Artisans will offer the following workshops in September.
Each workshop is $35, plus a materials fee. Unless otherwise noted, no experience is required to participate. Space will be limited.
Registration is required. To register, call 326-7908 or e-mail aepner@roxburyartsgroup.org.
"Concrete Botanicals"
Sept.11, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
with Carlyle Bradford
Materials fee: $15
This class will provide a brief overview of concrete. Participants will create a sculptural piece for their home or garden. Piece may include supplied botanicals or found objects and other personal items students may wish to bring.
Bradford is a potter and mixed-media sculptor who has been selling and exhibiting her work with clay for more than two decades throughout the country. She turned her attention to concrete 10 years ago.
"Paper Marbling"
Sept. 18, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
with Val Wells
Materials fee: $15
The class will demonstrate the paper marbling process. Participants will place paint on a surface of viscous liquid, move the floating paint with rakes and combs to draw patterns and transfer these designs to paper. They will learn why the paint floats and adheres to paper, using alum, ox gall and carrageen.
Wells has practiced marbling and bookbinding for more than two decades.
"Photography, Cyanotype"
Sept. 23, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
with Carla Shapiro
Materials fee: $10
Cyanotype is a 19th century, non-silver technique that is safe for the environment, presenters said. The finished product is blue. Participants will begin by looking in nature to find items to create photograms. The second part of the workshop is creating silhouette photograms on fabric. Shapiro is a photographer and artist who divides her time between New York City and the Catskill Mountains. She teaches photography at Pratt Institute and has shown her work in galleries throughout the United States.
"Chinese Calligraphy"
Sept. 23, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
with Tara Hu
Materials fee: $15, includes a calligraphy brush
This class will give a brief history of the traditional art of Chinese calligraphy, which dates back more than 3,000 years.
Participants will learn brush techniques that are both ancient and modern, introducing the union between hand, brush and paper.
Hu was raised and trained in Taipei, Taiwan. She moved to the U.S. in 1995, and although she is primarily known for her Chinese calligraphy, her ceramics and jewelry have been exhibited and sold throughout California and New Mexico since 1997.
