Rockin' the Paper Clay Workshop
A beginner-friendly to experienced artist class! Students will be creating a 12-14-inch figurative bust. The one-day affair will cover how to make Pamela Hignite’s handmade paper clay, one of the armature methods that she uses, how to cover the armature with paper clay, how to sculpt a face, and how to cover the armature with a first coat of paper clay. Pamela will also demonstrate how to embed objects into a second coat of paper clay for students' future reference. Students should be able to pick up their sculpture after allowing it to dry in front of a fan for 24 hours. Cost includes materials and use of all tools required to complete the project.
Students should please bring:
A washed cantaloupe/softball-sized roundish rock, irregularities in shape/surface are not a problem,
Any clay modeling tools that they may have,
Newspaper.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 | 12 - 4 PM
Member: $90 | Non-Member: $99
Guest Instructor & Former Exhibiting Artist: Pamela Hignite
Location: Studio A
Artist Biography
Pamela L Hignite is a sculptor and art educator. She exhibits her artwork in galleries and competitions on a national level. Pamela holds a BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She also has an MFA in Sculpture and an MA in Art Education from Miami University. Pamela received the Lilly Endowment for Teacher Creativity in 2012 and 2020.
“Creating art has been my passion and my life's blood since childhood. Finding my voice as an artist didn't come until I experienced numerous traumatic events in young adulthood. I gave birth to stillborn twins in my early twenties and I spent many years working through this tragedy. When I began making art again, this loss kept appearing in my work in subtle ways without me even realizing it was there.
Once I embraced the influence that birth and death were having upon my creative process, my work took on a more powerful universal meaning. The theme of birth and death cycles throughout each piece and appears in ways that sometimes even I can't see until the piece is finished.
As I create each piece, I think about how we are interrelated to one another, to other species, to nature, and to our environment. I think about the things we have in common; our shared experiences, shared beliefs, shared DNA, and shared biological structure. My work touches on our collective consciousness and embraces our collective commonalities.
Commonalities that tie us all together on our shared journey from birth to death on a spinning planet floating in the time and space of a vast universe.”
Her exhibition I Am. We Are. in the McDonald Gallery was on display from December 16th, 2023 to February 18th, 2024. View the exhibit here: https://www.artlafayette.org/i-am-we-are
A beginner-friendly to experienced artist class! Students will be creating a 12-14-inch figurative bust. The one-day affair will cover how to make Pamela Hignite’s handmade paper clay, one of the armature methods that she uses, how to cover the armature with paper clay, how to sculpt a face, and how to cover the armature with a first coat of paper clay. Pamela will also demonstrate how to embed objects into a second coat of paper clay for students' future reference. Students should be able to pick up their sculpture after allowing it to dry in front of a fan for 24 hours. Cost includes materials and use of all tools required to complete the project.
Students should please bring:
A washed cantaloupe/softball-sized roundish rock, irregularities in shape/surface are not a problem,
Any clay modeling tools that they may have,
Newspaper.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 | 12 - 4 PM
Member: $90 | Non-Member: $99
Guest Instructor & Former Exhibiting Artist: Pamela Hignite
Location: Studio A
Artist Biography
Pamela L Hignite is a sculptor and art educator. She exhibits her artwork in galleries and competitions on a national level. Pamela holds a BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She also has an MFA in Sculpture and an MA in Art Education from Miami University. Pamela received the Lilly Endowment for Teacher Creativity in 2012 and 2020.
“Creating art has been my passion and my life's blood since childhood. Finding my voice as an artist didn't come until I experienced numerous traumatic events in young adulthood. I gave birth to stillborn twins in my early twenties and I spent many years working through this tragedy. When I began making art again, this loss kept appearing in my work in subtle ways without me even realizing it was there.
Once I embraced the influence that birth and death were having upon my creative process, my work took on a more powerful universal meaning. The theme of birth and death cycles throughout each piece and appears in ways that sometimes even I can't see until the piece is finished.
As I create each piece, I think about how we are interrelated to one another, to other species, to nature, and to our environment. I think about the things we have in common; our shared experiences, shared beliefs, shared DNA, and shared biological structure. My work touches on our collective consciousness and embraces our collective commonalities.
Commonalities that tie us all together on our shared journey from birth to death on a spinning planet floating in the time and space of a vast universe.”
Her exhibition I Am. We Are. in the McDonald Gallery was on display from December 16th, 2023 to February 18th, 2024. View the exhibit here: https://www.artlafayette.org/i-am-we-are
A beginner-friendly to experienced artist class! Students will be creating a 12-14-inch figurative bust. The one-day affair will cover how to make Pamela Hignite’s handmade paper clay, one of the armature methods that she uses, how to cover the armature with paper clay, how to sculpt a face, and how to cover the armature with a first coat of paper clay. Pamela will also demonstrate how to embed objects into a second coat of paper clay for students' future reference. Students should be able to pick up their sculpture after allowing it to dry in front of a fan for 24 hours. Cost includes materials and use of all tools required to complete the project.
Students should please bring:
A washed cantaloupe/softball-sized roundish rock, irregularities in shape/surface are not a problem,
Any clay modeling tools that they may have,
Newspaper.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 | 12 - 4 PM
Member: $90 | Non-Member: $99
Guest Instructor & Former Exhibiting Artist: Pamela Hignite
Location: Studio A
Artist Biography
Pamela L Hignite is a sculptor and art educator. She exhibits her artwork in galleries and competitions on a national level. Pamela holds a BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She also has an MFA in Sculpture and an MA in Art Education from Miami University. Pamela received the Lilly Endowment for Teacher Creativity in 2012 and 2020.
“Creating art has been my passion and my life's blood since childhood. Finding my voice as an artist didn't come until I experienced numerous traumatic events in young adulthood. I gave birth to stillborn twins in my early twenties and I spent many years working through this tragedy. When I began making art again, this loss kept appearing in my work in subtle ways without me even realizing it was there.
Once I embraced the influence that birth and death were having upon my creative process, my work took on a more powerful universal meaning. The theme of birth and death cycles throughout each piece and appears in ways that sometimes even I can't see until the piece is finished.
As I create each piece, I think about how we are interrelated to one another, to other species, to nature, and to our environment. I think about the things we have in common; our shared experiences, shared beliefs, shared DNA, and shared biological structure. My work touches on our collective consciousness and embraces our collective commonalities.
Commonalities that tie us all together on our shared journey from birth to death on a spinning planet floating in the time and space of a vast universe.”
Her exhibition I Am. We Are. in the McDonald Gallery was on display from December 16th, 2023 to February 18th, 2024. View the exhibit here: https://www.artlafayette.org/i-am-we-are