What The F!?! – Fiber, Fabrics, Fusing, Facades with Jaz Graf
August 19 - August 23
| $350 – $1200Event Navigation
What The F!?! – Fiber, Fabrics, Fusing, Facades – Jaz Graf
Dates: August 19 – August 23, 2024
Studio: Papermaking
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350 – $1200
Lab Fee: $100
Class limit: 8
How do materials collide and synthesize to convey our embodied and metaphorical stories? How might we translate old prints, drawings, and cloth scraps to enrich something new? We will use fibers such as mulberry, abaca, cotton, recycled materials, and fabrics as foundations for fusing, embedding, layering, and image construction. Participants will explore pattern, texture, and color from matrices, stencils, and other fragments through water-based pigments, and pulp blowouts, with experimental drying techniques including stack, restraint, and air drying. All levels of experience are welcome. All are encouraged to feel empowered to play with the possibilities.
Artist
Jaz Graf
Jaz Graf (MFA @U Iowa) is a paper, print & book artist with a studio practice at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. Graf is the recipient of a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship (Dieu Donné, NY), Salzberg Book Arts Residency (Jaffe Center at FAU, FL), Creative Catalyst Grant (Newark, NJ), Studio Award (Women’s Studio Workshop, NY), and Civil Society Institute Fellow (Vermont Studio Center). Her work has been featured at Art on Paper(NY), Newark Museum (NJ), Seager/Gray Gallery (CA), Dieu Donné (NY) and South Bend Museum (IN). She has taught at Penland, SUNY Purchase, the University of Notre Dame and Caldwell University.