Creative Art Sculpture Workshops

Collaboration is central to my practice. I lead individuals and teams through the art cycle from inception to reception by making body cast sculptures contextualized by themes like ending domestic violence, expressing language identity of people who are Deaf or the hope of electing a president. Specific themes form group cohesion and raise awareness about social issues that impact our world and our bodies. The process affords individuals a physical opportunity to identify as artists by co-creating sculpture cast from their bodies then sharing them with the world.

Because you cannot cast your own hand without the help of another person, authorship must be negotiated. Often a concept cannot be expressed without an additional form of another.  Participants work together between dwell and release time; where the subject waits for the medium to set around their form and where they need help being released. It is messy, physical and exciting to uncover yourself in form and mark it in time using hand tools.

Realization of the sculpture from the mold pushes participants to a zone engrossing them in their own personal forms. They pick and scrape chasing air bubbles and imperfections on forms duplicate to their original body. Skin, wrinkles and expression can be seen. Original designs and expectations soar and crash revealing perfect and sometimes distorted forms.