The American Crafts Council Southeastern Regional Conference – (Nan is an invited conference demonstrator)
Location: Kennesaw State University, near Atlanta, Georgia
Dates: Thursday August 21-Friday August 22, 2009
For more information about the Conference contact: Professor Keith Smith [ksmith1@kennesaw.edu] or look on the website - http://www.kennesaw.edu/visual_arts/ACCSE/ and click on ACC-SE conference.
Workshop Description: “Molds, Modeling and the Narrative Figure”
This two day workshop will focus on methods of creating life scale figures in clay through demonstration and hands-on activities. Casting and mold-making processes using alginate, plaster life-casts, and rubber press-molds as well as life modeling will be taught. A visual survey will be presented on the human figure as a narrative vehicle. A discussion of historical figuration and contemporary genre including the doll, the mannequin, figurine and statuary are to be explored. Installation-oriented figure sculpture and figures in context will be discussed.
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