Sculpting with Angi Cooper (FREE WORKSHOP)
Schedule
Sat Apr 19 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas | Pine Bluff, AR
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📆 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 19📍The Arts & Science Center, 701 S. Main St. in Pine Bluff
đź’µ FREE
đź‘Ş Ages: All
Mixed-media artist Angi Cooper will demonstrate how to create nature-inspired sculptures from materials such as cardboard.
Angi is the ARTx3 Campus's Arts in Education artist-in-residence for February 2025. Her residency and this workshop are made possible by the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts in Education program.
Registration is requested. Register at artx3.org/all-events/sculpting-with-angi-cooper or call 870-536-3375.
There is no cost to participate and all supplies are provided.
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About Angi Cooper
Angi Cooper was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design.
She is a professional mixed media artist and a practicing teaching artist in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Some of the workshops she has conducted with students include: printmaking, bookmaking, mask creation, drawing and painting techniques, zine design, paper sculpture, puppet construction, paper-cutting techniques, and mural design and construction.
Her work is part of private and public collections both in the United States and internationally. Part of her public art collection includes: a nature walkway mural approximately 265 feet long in Texarkana, Texas; student collaborative murals in Arkansas and Mississippi; interior mural in the Kroger store café in Hernando, Mississippi; a triptych panel mural at Germantown Community Library in Germantown, Tennessee; a California sea lion painting for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; a temporary installation of 1,000 origami cranes at the Children’s Museum of Memphis and the MAX Museum in Meridian, Mississippi.
Angi is also a hiker and amateur birder. She enjoys exploring trails in state and national park systems, always has her camera and binoculars in her backpack, and has started a series of zines based on the birds from her life list. One of her favorite songbirds is the wood thrush. She describes it as “poetry personified.”
Visit her website, angicooper.com.
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Where is it happening?
Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S Main St, Pine Bluff, AR 71601-4903, United States,Pine Bluff, ArkansasEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
