Printed Paper Puppets: Sunday workshop

Sunday, August 23, 1 PM to 4 PM

in the Tuey Art Studio at the Gibson Art Museum and outdoors.

Free with registration. For 12 yrs and up. All materials provided.

Registration closes Thursday, August 20.

Let’s make some paper puppets! In this workshop, we’ll use a variety of printmaking techniques to create papers with different colors, patterns, and textures. We’ll cut up our printed papers and other collage materials, and reassemble them as articulated paper puppets! Our characters will take inspiration from the posters and photographs in the Museum. Learn techniques for making prints and rubbings, cutting out shapes safely and precisely, creating joints for paper puppets, and puppet movement. We’ll have the option to attach rods to our puppets to help them move, and we’ll also use our characters in some stop motion animation experiments. Come bring your creations to life!

“My son loved it! It was great to spend time together as a family doing something creative.”

“The workshop was extremely engaging. It was interesting looking with new eyes at all the textures in our environment.”

PLEASE NOTE:

• This workshop is intended for people ages 12 and up. If you are younger and want to participate, please email [email protected] to inquire.
• Under 15 years must be accompanied by an adult.
• Ages 15 to 18 must have a waiver signed by their parent/guardian or otherwise be accompanied by an adult.
• All participants must register a free ticket, including adults accompanying minors.
• Rain or shine! Please dress appropriately for the weather.

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Liz Oakley is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a background in puppetry. They are interested in how art can enable forms of attention that disrupt our sense of the usual and open spaces of possibility, presence, and co-creation. Recently, Liz’s performance, installation, and puppetry designs have appeared in Vancouver at the SUM Gallery, Vines Festival, Audain Gallery, SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, What Lab, and Playwrights Theatre Centre. Liz is currently the Art Studio Lead at the Gibson Art Museum. They are also an artist-in-residence in Vancouver schools with the AIRS program and an educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Liz resides Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They have an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

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This workshop is generously supported by the Tuey Charitable Foundation, the Deux Mille Foundation, and Friends of the Gibson.

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The Gibson reserves the right to cancel this workshop due to low registration, and will make every effort to reschedule it.

Photos by Liz Oakley.