Kaleidoscope
Saturday, April, 3 – 6pm
Location: 2313 Beatrice St. Suite #100
Instructor: Lisa Huffaker
Create your own kaleidoscope in this beginner-friendly workshop geared for people of any age who enjoy creating together. We’ll build unique kaleidoscopes, assembling the internal mirror structure, personalizing the exterior with collage and poetry, and designing an object chamber that reflects each artist’s unique life story. Participants are welcome to bring special mementoes, to make their kaleidoscopes very personal. Collage elements might include a ticket stub from a special concert, an old photograph – any meaningful bit of paper. Objects for the reflection chamber must be pea-sized or smaller, or flat and no bigger than a penny; workable examples include a baby tooth, a sequin from your dance costume, a snip of hair, an apple seed, a bead from a broken bracelet. We’ll have wonderful materials on hand: vintage paper ephemera, colorful collage papers, old postage stamps, and a plethora of tiny trinkets. Friends or family members are welcome to register together, or perhaps you’ll come solo to build a meaningful kaleidoscope as a keepsake or a gift for someone special.
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Lisa Huffaker creates poetry, collage, assemblage, artist’s books, and many combinations of these. Her poetry appears in Pleiades, Diode, 32 Poems, Michigan Quarterly Review, CTRL+V, DIAGRAM, Cincinnati Review, THRUSH, Phoebe, and other journals. She was recently a finalist for Dallas Poet Laureate, and leads community writing projects as Teaching Artist in Residence at the Writer’s Garret. Her work as a teaching artist brings her to the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and The Dallas Contemporary. Her assemblages have recently been exhibited at Ro2 Art and Bath House Cultural Center. She is currently working on a book of visual poetry, transforming a women’s "self help" book from 1963 through collage and poetic erasure. 65 pieces from the project have been published so far, and the manuscript-in-progress was exhibited internationally as part of TU Delft and Cornell Tech’s 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation. She comes from a background of classical singing; she holds a Master’s degree in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory, and sings with The Dallas Opera.
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