Instructor: Sheryl Jaffe
Monday - Friday
July 20 - 24
9am - 12pm
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions
Experience the amazing versatility of fibrous plants! Learn pulp-making and papermaking from local flora, seaweed, phragmites, cattails……. We will explore 2d and 3d paper manipulations: both wet and dry. Learn to create structures from wood, metal, branches and vermiculite. Stretch your imagination and stretch what you think paper can do. Sculpture, scrolls, installations or books. Codium seaweed, corn, iris, onion, mulberry and flax—all have distinctive, fascinating fiber for making gorgeous, textured, colorful handmade paper. Have fun learning with traditional and innovative tools like hula hoops and dumpling steamers. We'll cook & beat fiber into pulp and then pull, pour, drip and squirt designs that become fabulous art forms to take home. No prior papermaking or art experience is necessary. Be prepared to get wet, have fun and make great stuff!
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Sheryl works with materials that breathe, handmade paper from local and exotic plant fibers, found objects, branches and stems to create 2 and 3 dimensional works that connect the human body with the vulnerability and resilience of the flora around us.
Her work includes installations, sculpture, artist books and prints and are evocative offerings for viewers to move through, make discoveries, and be drawn in, to contemplation. She studied traditional hand papermaking in Japan and China and has taught papermaking at home and abroad with students age 2 to 84. Jaffe was a resident artist at The Barn, Edward Albee Foundation and at Yellowstone National Park, where she explored fibers found in those unique locations. She has a Masters Degree in Art Education and a BA in Multicultural Art Education, both from the University of Massachusetts. She volunteers in the community with the ArtPeace Makers, the MLK Action Team and in bringing Wampanoag Culture and Education to the Outer Cape.
Some of my best friends are plants, and like plants and most other living things I need water, air and soil to thrive. I collaborate with materials that were once alive and continue to “breathe”.
Learn more at sheryljaffe.com