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Birds, Bees and Butterflies - Mixed Media Sculpture with Geoffrey Gorman Oct. 11-14 2024

$1,150.00
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Birds, Bees and Butterflies

Take flight while learning how to build a variety of curious winged and fanciful creatures with Santa Fe Artist Geoffrey Gorman. Be prepared to let go of conventional building techniques and traditional methods of designing while learning how to build a flying creature. Using a wide variety of cast off materials and unorthodox construction, we will design, assemble and bring to life a curious menagerie. We will learn how to make bodies, legs and wings from an assortment of materials including wood, wire, bike tires and odds and ends.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This four-day workshop encourages students to experiment with innovative and intuitive ways of creating a variety of flying creatures using wood and found and recycled materials. Students are invited to think about subjects, shapes and forms that hold particular interest and bring these ideas to the workshop for realization. Using unusual techniques developed by Geoffrey to overcome construction challenges, each student will complete a variety of creatures, something they want to create! This class is perfect for beginners seeking an introduction to creating curious objects as well as intermediate and advanced students wishing to reach the next level and break out of their comfort zone. We will take a day to visit the wonderful Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe and experience folk sculpture from around the world, while finding inspiration and new ideas for your own work.

Each participant will be given a wooden bird form to create their first creature. For the rest of the workshop anything goes, let your imagination go wild!

Geoffrey will also discuss and advise on professional tools needed by practicing artists wanting to expand their art careers.   With many years on both sides of the gallery/ artist relationship he is a gem for information on the how, what and why of being successful in the art business.

OUTCOMES

  • A new approach to the creative practice

  • Working intuitively with mixed media

  • Expanding visual vocabulary

TECHNIQUES

  • Hand tool use

  • Basic woodworking

  • Unusual construction techniques

  • Carving wood

MATERIALS

  • Wood

  • Lost and found stuff

  • ephemera

October 11-14, 2024

@ MUSES Santa Fe / 1512 Pacheco St. #D204 Santa Fe NM 87505

Workshop Info:

  • Tuition $1100 (includes field trips)

  • Lodging, transportation and meals not included

  • Max 10 students

  • All skill levels welcome

  • This workshop has a minimum enrollment requirement. It is good idea to purchase travel insurance if planning on making immutable travel arrangements.

Please note our cancellation policy: After registration and payment, students have 48 hours to cancel with a 15% admin fee deducted from their refund. After the 48 Hr cancellation period and up until 2 weeks before the workshop begins a refund will be given (-a 15% admin fee) only if the spot can be filled by another student. Please understand our cancellation policy is necessary to properly accommodate our guest artists who go to great lengths to be here!