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What does it mean to be American?A Pop-up Screen Printing Workshop
SAT JAN 30 @ 10AM
ENROLLMENT COST: $20/2.5 HR WORKSHOP
Scholarships available
ENROLL NOW https://www.chehalemculturalcenter.org/classes/spring/aliciaandellen
In collaboration with our exhibit What Does it Mean to Be an American? by Alicia Decker & Ellen Knutson, this special one-time pop-up workshop for young artists in grades 6 - 12 takes place on Saturday, January 30th from 10am-12:30pm in our Grand Lobby (class itself will take place in the Ballroom or Culinary Center based on spacing).
What does it mean to be American? A question with many answers that is the basis of the quilt exhibit currently on display in the Grand Lobby. Join artists Alicia Decker and Ellen Knutson in this very special pop-up workshop to have conversations and share your own thoughts on the question and learn how to translate your ideas into images and words on fabric.
Working with screen printing and fabric painting, young artists will complete two pieces:
- a quilt square that will be included in the ongoing exhibit “What Does it Mean to be American?”
- a tote bag to take home
If there is time and interest, young artists will also learn how to embellish their work with embroidery.
All levels are welcome! All materials are provided.
This is a perfect opportunity to try new skills with an engaging and timely focus, learn directly from professional exhibiting artists, and make their mark by participating in an ongoing exhibit.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Alicia Decker is a Fiber Artist, Textile Designer and University Educator living in Portland, Oregon. Alicia is a freelance designer and an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Her research-based studio practice involves storytelling through textiles; utilizing illustration, various printing and dyeing methods, quilting and embroidery, to create compelling visual fiber-based narrative through print, pattern, and color about events currently shaping our world. Her work aims to understand and implement the power of textiles to engage with community, and to explore subverted narratives; hidden and personal messages to either be decoded or simply and therapeutically “released”. Alicia is also on the Board of Directors of the Surface Design Association and Embellishment Volume Co-Editor for Bloomsbury’s Encyclopedia of World Textiles to be released in Spring 2023. aliludesign.com @snaaaxx
Ellen M. Knutson lives in Portland, Oregon, and uses dialogue and deliberation to engage community members around issues that are important to them. Since 2017 she has facilitated community conversation throughout Oregon on the question “What Does it Mean to be American” in partnership with Oregon Humanities. She is a research associate at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation where she learns with and from librarians and university faculty who are experimenting with deepening their community engagement practices. Ellen is also adjunct faculty in the Library and Information Science master’s programs at the University of Illinois and at North Carolina Central University. She is a printmaker (Screen Print, Letterpress, and Solar Plate Intaglio), traveler, bicycle rider, and lover of mountains and forests, and oceans.
Learn more about the exhibit here https://www.chehalemculturalcenter.org/exhibitions/2021/1/12/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-american-by-alicia-decker-amp-ellen-knutson
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, United States