Join us on May 3rd for an Artist Demo with Kimberly Stoney, who will give a hands-on demonstration of how she recreates images from life to make abstract collages. Kimberly will share how she prepares the colorful pattern papers used in her multi-layered collages. As Kimberly says, the sense of possibility when holding a “piece of color” is intensely inspiring and sparks the question “what if” that underlies her collaging process.

“I love to tear, fold, and crumple, thin pieces of paint, stained papers and layer them in unexpected compositions, punctuated with active mark making. My collage paintings are inspired by the mundane moments in my daily life: folding laundry, chauffeuring a child, walking in the woods. I’m interested in creating and covering, revealing the layers in my own working process.”

Join us Thursday, April 27th at 6pm for a photo-book presentation with photographer Astrid Reischwitz.

Astrid will discuss her body of work and her path to publishing her photo-book Spin Club Stories (Kehrer Verlag, 2022)
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In Spin Club Stories, Astrid explores personal and cultural memory influenced by her upbringing in a small farming village in Northern Germany. She uses keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and embroidered fabric from the village to build a world of memory, identity, and home. The artist takes cues from the old tradition of spin clubs in her village, where village women met to spin wool and create needlework—and share stories while they worked. She transforms this tradition of storytelling into a visual journey. Her own embroidered designs are partial representations of her ancestral linens, emphasizing the fragmentary nature of recollection.

The presentation will be followed by a book signing.