When: This 3-Day Workshop series meets on Monday, April 13, 20, and 27 from 10 am - 2:00 pm
Place: Travlers' Rest State Park
Audience: This workshop is suitable for ages 18+
What to bring: Attendees are welcome to bring their own designs, ideas, and sketchbooks. No preparation is necessary.
Cost: The workshop is free, but a suggested donation is appreciated!
Registration: Registration is required and is limited to 8 people. Registration will close 24 hours before the workshop begins.
Register here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260685096564165
Cancellation: If you are registered and cannot attend the workshop, please let us know at susie@openairmt.org so we can open the spot for another participant!
Questions? Email susie@openairmt.org
About the Workshop:
WE KNOW THIS FOREST, led by Open AIR Spring artist-in-residence and educator Candace Garlock, is a community-based art project that uses the metaphor of a dense, shifting forest to explore the nonlinear, often unpredictable experience of living with chronic conditions and disability. It creates space for participants to share stories, images, and reflections that honor both the difficulty and resilience found in these lived landscapes while exploring shared ecological memory and identity through collaborative woodcut and casting workshops. While the project invites people with chronic conditions and disabilities to engage, participation does not require disclosing any diagnosis, disability status, or health information unless they personally choose to share it.For more information about this national project, visit www.weknowthisforest.com.This is a 3-day (once a week) workshop and we hope to work with a consistent group of 5-8 individuals over this 3-week period. Lunch will be provided during the workshop.
This is a 3-day workshop and we hope to work with a consistent group of 5-8 individuals over this 3-week period. Lunch will be provided during the workshop.
Class schedule at Travelers' Rest State Park:
Day 1 Morning - Introduction of the entire project, including the timeline, brainstorming, journal drawing, and cohort trust-building activities. Take a walk in the park activity and sketch some ideas to combine and add to the tree.
Day 1 Afternoon - Collaboratively drawing the "tree" woodcut with sharpies onto the wood panel. Woodcutting demo using traditional and power tools.
Day 2 - Carving the woodcut
Day 3 - Introduction to the feet part of the project and then plaster casting our feet. Participant homework - designing and creating the part of the sculpture base where your feet will rest. The tree base will be given to everyone with a shipping box. Participants will need to ship their finished piece to Candace.
NOTE: The tree prints won't be printed at the State Park due to drying time needed and space. Candace will print them in her studio when she returns back to Reno.