Thursday May 14th 6:00pm-8:30 pm | Hartson Gallery (Upstairs)
Newburyport Art
65 Water St
Newburyport, MA 01950
Artist Joseph Cornell made exquisite, personal and complex dioramas. Maybe you want to build an alter to a person or a place. Perhaps you want to build a momento mori or memory garden. Maybe you just want to play intuitively and assemble objects. No prior experience necessary-Belle will bring examples and demonstrate options for assemblage.
The session will take place in the second-floor Hartson Gallery at 65 Water St, Newburyport, MA 01950. Please note that this workshop space is accessible only by stairs. If you anticipate this being a problem for you, please email us at education@newburyportart.org.
Materials to bring:
- Bring your magic bits, the weird stuff from your drawers, old hardware, cloth remainders, maps, old books, stamps-anything you might want to use for a 3D collage in a box. Bring a box too! We will provide boxes and all materials if you don't want to bring anything, but your stuff makes it personal. We will also provide adhesive, hot glue, drills and other sundry tools for attaching.
Cost:
- NAA Members: $75
- Non-members: $95
- Materials Fee: $10
- 10% discount offered to seniors (ages 65+)
Belle Carver Struck Bio
Belle Struck is an artist/educator. She comes from a long line of writers, performers and artists. Belle has exhibited works in Boston, Antwerp, Paris, and around the North Shore. One of her etchings is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of a tribute to Michael Mazur. The Print collection is called: Cognates. She has her BFA from Art Institute of Boston, an MFA from Lesley Art & Design in Cambridge, Mass. She is currently serving as the Executive Director at The Newburyport Art Association.
From Belle's website:
I work with dead and discarded morphology. I study natural living networks and imagine humans' futures in balance with our planet's ecology. Through observation, collaboration, and drawing my work highlights how natural patterns and systems echo each other in form and function. Utilizing foraged bones, feathers, skin, hair, and other dead stuff to construct environments and drawings of those environments, my work looks to act as connective tissue, inviting multiple possible configurations, contexts, and revisions to the future. My process questions collective traumas, scars, and detritus to investigate ways to repair through acts of alchemy and new growth. My research investigates how holistic communities of people, trees, birds, fungi, bacteria, and other life forms consume and are re-formed, and what they might teach us about living in balance with our wildness.
See some examples of other student's boxes below!