Summer 2022 Calendar of Events
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) Exhibition: Art through Action—Restoration and Regeneration
May 13 - 15, 2022
Bioneers Conference, Palace of the Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA, 94123 (map)
WEAD's theme of "Art through Action: Restoration and Regeneration" presents works that have to do with the restoration of environmental or social ecosystems. They propose solutions and are action oriented. How do we re-generate the world we would like to live in, a world that works for all other beings as well?
Norman Bird Sanctuary: Botanical Papermaking
Saturday, June 4, 2022 - 3:30 PM 4:30 PM
Norman Bird Sanctuary, 583 3rd Beach Road, Middletown, RI, 02842, United States (map)
Join May Babcock for a guided paper making demonstration using a common invasive plant found throughout Rhode Island, including at the Norman Bird Sanctuary: Japanese Knotweed. By the end of this lecture and demonstration, you will know how to use this plant for a new purpose and leave with your own sheet of paper as you take part in a portion of the making process.
Register here. NBS Members $20, Non-Members $25
Exhibition: Below the Surface II
ART LEAGUE RI GALLERY
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - June 27, 2022
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 5:30 - 7:30 PM
80 Fountain Street, Suite 107A, Pawtucket RI (map)
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND’S PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY
July 5, 2022 - July 28, 2022
SPECIAL RECEPTION: Thursday, July 21, 2022 - 5 - 9 PM
80 Washington Street, Providence RI 02903 (map)
An exhibition of artwork that brings attention to the impact of the ocean on our lives, what we have and can continue to learn from it, and how it affects the earth’s inhabitants. “Below the Surface II” will continue the discussion started in the Synergy II Project which aims to tell the story of our connection to the environment, using the vehicles of science and art, to illustrate current and future processes of individual and collaborative exploration.
Exhibition: Elemental Effects
June 11 - July 4, 2022
RECEPTION Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 5 - 7:30 PM
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, 120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies, NJ 08008 (map)
This venturous exhibition pays tribute to the enduring effects of water, wind, earth, and fire which have been forming planet Earth since its inception, and that account for the precise conditions that enable life. Instead of presenting abstractions, symbols, and representations, the works of art manifest and explore the influence of these almighty forces because they were formed by actual charring, saturating, melting, freezing, rusting, eroding, floating, erupting, dissolving, sprouting, combusting, fermenting, evaporating, condensing, or other processes that account for the dynamics of our planetary home.
Artist Talk: Three Papermakers on How Water Shapes Their Creative Process
Tuesday June 28, 2022 - 6:30-8 PM ET
Advance registration is required.
This is event is being held online. After registering, connection information will be emailed to you.
General Public: Free
Hand papermaking is an artistic discipline offered to PAFA students and to the Brodsky Center's artists-in-residence. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and the papermaking machine, hand paper production all but ceased in the United States. By employing hand papermaking today, artists question this rupture in craft tradition and instead envision continuity among artistic, technological, and scientific thought processes. Contemporary papermaking artists experiment in three notable areas: engineering new forms; engaging urgent threats to the environment; and sensing color and texture through non-mainstream cultural sensibilities. In this talk, three artists highlight water usage in hand papermaking, with a historical introduction by Philadelphia artist, PAFA faculty and Brodsky Center’s collaborative papermaker Nicole Donnelly; highlights on Japanese papermaking, its approach to water conservation, and its relation to the current practice of Tatiana Ginsberg, artist and Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné in New York; and understanding invasive water plants through the work of artist and papermaker May Babcock, who is based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Exhibition: Art that Matters to the Planet
July 27 - October 30, 2022
OPENING: July 27, 2022
Roger Tory Peterson Institute, 311 Curtis St, Jamestown, NY 14701 (map)
Art that Matters to the Planet isn’t your typical exhibition. We invited each selected artist to collaborate to create an exhibition that best describes their artistic process. These artists are exhibiting finished works, preparatory drawings, and field sketches. Accompanying narratives, photographs and videos are important for some, not so much for others. Whatever it takes to help you, the audience, understand how and why each artist uses art to illuminate the beauty of nature, challenge us to confront environmental issues of regional, national or global concern; and inspire us to preserve the earth’s biodiversity.
In other words, in a world of exceptional natural beauty and overwhelming environmental challenges, these artists are making a strong case that art not only matters, but it is essential for creating a better world.
Papermaking at Osamequin Farm: a hands on experience making paper from cut flower waste
Saturday, August 6, 2022 (Rain Date Sunday August 7th)
10AM - 3PM
$100 per participant
Limited capacity! Tickets available here.
No refunds will be issued.
Make paper from cut flower stems and leaf waste!
In this one day workshop, learn how to harvest and process natural fibers for papermaking. May will guide the group through the process to make a supply of textured handmade papers. You’ll create incredible, unique artistic sheets by embedding natural materials from the farm, including pressed flowers and petals that you’ve gathered! Everyone will be able to bring home the collection of papers that they’ve made.
We’ll take a walking tour through Flower Hill to explore different cut flower stem textures and gather petals and other plant material to embed in our final products.
Bring a bagged lunch to enjoy midday.