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Joomchi (Traditional Korean Felt Making) Workshop with Catherine Cross Tsintzos
February 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
In connection with the exhibit LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER, and made possible by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, enjoy a workshop on Joomchi (Traditional Korean Felt Making) by artist and educator Catherine Cross Tsintzos.
Date: Wednesday, February 18
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Room 102, Hand Art Center
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
Registration Required. Max attendance: 20
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Catherine Cross Tsintzos uses her knowledge and experience to create within the realms of both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary art components for outcomes that focus on environmental and social issues, traditional fine art craft and sustainability. She has a clear purpose in building and crossing bridges among the arts with a deep focus and balance between artistic practice, teaching, activism and invitation for participation. Catherine has spent her life’s work in the arts developing arts curriculum and arts education opportunities for all ages, abilities and socio-economic backgrounds in all mediums of the visual arts throughout the eastern United States. She is honored to have solid experiences rooted in museum education, rural advancement, non-profit arts organizations, community outreach and working with national and international artists from around the world. Experiences with mediums that provide engagement with nature, agriculture along with processes and elements of surprise like ceramics, hand paper making, printmaking and surface design techniques for fiber arts and textiles are experiences Catherine connects with during her personal art making most.
Catherine is a practicing and exhibiting artist from North Carolina and shares her hand paper making and natural dye experiences in workshops throughout the United States. Using handmade paper, raw plant materials and natural plant pigments for dyes in her new pieces Catherine builds and creates three-dimensional works to scaffold thoughts and conversations about agricultural heritage, community, preservation, conservation and land stewardship. Catherine works with seasonal agricultural and garden harvests that she grows or uses during residencies to create handmade paper for layered works that capture the essence of the raw materials she cooks, pounds, mixes, presses and creates with. With a background in printmaking and hand building with clay Catherine enjoys building vessels, abstract sculptures, boats and book structures incorporating the papers she creates sometimes using text and printmaking or surface design techniques to suggest or contribute to the story. Catherine is a Professional Member of the Virginia Center for the Book, Virginia Humanities, University of Virginia, the College Book Arts Association, Active Member, Central Florida Book Arts Guild at Rollins College, New England Book Artists, North American Hand Papermakers and Triangle Books Arts.
Learn more about the artists featured in LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER at centralfloridaprintmakers.com and www.bookartsguildcf.org
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts.
