BRYANT HOLSENBECK | WORKSHOPS
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2 Day | Saturday 15 – Sunday 16 March 2025
WRAPPING WILD – SOLD OUT please click the email link below if you would like to go on the waiting list Working with repurposed, scavenged materials and wire to make wild animals! Students will begin with a mammal. Next, we will learn the basics of making a bird. Techniques of random weave and wrapping will be discussed. The best thing you can bring to this class is wide-open expectations. I will provide the wire—See materials list for everything else. Please bring lots to share! All levels |
4 Day | Monday 17 – Thursday 20 March 2025
WRAPPING WILDER – only 2 places left! Students will learn to make wire armatures to construct complex animals out of recycled materials. We will make a mammal and proceed to making a bird. We’ll study the detail and articulation in animals of all kinds. And incorporate heavier and finer wire to learn how to give more detail. Using basketry techniques, like random weave and wrapping construction of our animals. All levels |
BRYANT HOLSENBECK
Website bryantholsenbeck.com
Insta bryant_holsenbeck
Having begun her arts career as a basket maker, Bryant Holsenbeck has evolved into an environmental artist making large-scale installations documenting the waste stream of our society. She has shown her work and taught throughout the United States. Holsenbeck has been the recipient of 2 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships, and a Project Grant from the US National Endowment for the Arts NEA Arts and Learning Grant in collaboration with the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission. In 2013 Holsenbeck was an artist-in-residence at Moulin à Nef in Auvillar France. In 2010 Bryant Holsenbeck lived a full year without using single use plastic and uses what she learned that year to make a smaller footprint on the environment. Her book, The Last Straw: A Continuing Quest for Life without Disposable Plastic, was published in the fall of 2018. She is also an independent studio artist who makes books, birds, and other mostly animals sculptures out of recycled materials.
Insta bryant_holsenbeck
Having begun her arts career as a basket maker, Bryant Holsenbeck has evolved into an environmental artist making large-scale installations documenting the waste stream of our society. She has shown her work and taught throughout the United States. Holsenbeck has been the recipient of 2 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships, and a Project Grant from the US National Endowment for the Arts NEA Arts and Learning Grant in collaboration with the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission. In 2013 Holsenbeck was an artist-in-residence at Moulin à Nef in Auvillar France. In 2010 Bryant Holsenbeck lived a full year without using single use plastic and uses what she learned that year to make a smaller footprint on the environment. Her book, The Last Straw: A Continuing Quest for Life without Disposable Plastic, was published in the fall of 2018. She is also an independent studio artist who makes books, birds, and other mostly animals sculptures out of recycled materials.
