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Wrapping Wild with Bryant Holsenbeck
Wrapping Wild with Bryant Holsenbeck

Wrapping Wild with Bryant Holsenbeck

Working with repurposed, scavenged materials and wire to make wild animals!

Time & Location

22 Mar 2025, 9:00 am – 23 Mar 2025, 4:00 pm

Glyph Gallery Creative Space,Port Fairy, 38A Bank St, Port Fairy VIC 3284, Australia

About the event

Working with repurposed, scavenged materials and wire to make wild animals!

Students will begin with a mammal. Next, we will learn the basics of making a bird.

Explore techniques of random weave and wrapping to create animals and birds with personality, they can be realistic creatures or fantasy! all from recycled materials.

The best thing you can bring to this class is wide-open expectations. 

    

Materials list for students to bring to the workshop:

-Name tag

-Coffee mug

- Please bring printed or dawn images of the animals you are interested in making!

- LOTS of plastic bags 

- Fabric scraps 

- Yarn, thread, string 

- Buttons, beads, feathers, sticks, rocks, other treasures 

- Wire: any gauge you already have 

- Safety glasses!! 

- Small bottle PVA/fabric glue 

- Cutting mat 

- Tools: sharp cloth scissors, pliers (needle nose), sewing needles, pins, awls 

- Work apron 

- Hard copy pictures or books of animals you are thinking of making 

Please bring lots of scrap fabric, yarn, thread, broken jewellery, etc to share.


Materials fee $40 (TBC) per student to be in cash for the tutor on the first day. This fee will cover specific wire – we’ll have a better idea of cost leading up to the workshop program.

About the tutor: BRYANT HOLSENBECK​

Website bryantholsenbeck.com

Insta bryant_holsenbeck

Having begun her arts career as a basket maker, Bryant Holsenbeck has evolved into an environmental artist making large-scale installations documenting the waste stream of our society. She has shown her work and taught throughout the United States. Holsenbeck has been the recipient of 2 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships, and a Project Grant from the US National Endowment for the Arts NEA Arts and Learning Grant in collaboration with the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission. In 2013 Holsenbeck was an artist-in-residence at Moulin à Nef in Auvillar France. In 2010 Bryant Holsenbeck lived a full year without using single use plastic and uses what she learned that year to make a smaller footprint on the environment. Her book, The Last Straw: A Continuing Quest for Life without Disposable Plastic, was published in the fall of 2018. She is also an independent studio artist who makes books, birds, and other mostly animals sculptures out of recycled materials.

Tickets

  • Wrapping Wild with Holsenbeck

    From $245.00 to $370.00
    • $370.00
      +$9.25 service fee
    • $245.00
      +$6.13 service fee

    Total

    $0.00

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