Papermaking Workshop

Hollwedel Memorial Library 5 Woodrow Drive 14525, Pavilion

Course Description: Roll up your sleeves as you’re going to get wet. Make your own paper in anycolor and thickness, adorned with flowers, beads, ribbons, even insects. It’s amazing how simple it is.Rip up bits of existing paper, from newsprint to watercolor paper, put into a household blender withwater and grind into pulp. Using the...

Plaster Casting Workshop

Hollwedel Memorial Library 5 Woodrow Drive 14525, Pavilion

Course Description: Roll up your sleeves and stick your hands into a bucket of wet plaster! Bring anobject such as a seashell or plastic toy to press into wet sand to make an impression. We need tomix out the air bubbles before we pour it onto the sand. We'll let it set and harden into...

Altered Books Workshop

Hollwedel Memorial Library 5 Woodrow Drive 14525, Pavilion

Course Description: Have you ever wanted to take a pair of scissors to a book? Here’s your chanceto destroy a perfectly good book while creating a new work of art.. We start with a normal hardcover book that we cut, glue, rip and otherwise desecrate with our artmaking. Students will learn thebasics of pop up...