Wet felted vessel and photo by Kerrt Sharkey-Miller.
Led by Kerry Sharkey-Miller
$25 ($22.50 for Members)
Art Social offers a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.
Do you have a burning desire to create some amazing fabric from scratch? Join artist Kerry Sharkey-Miller in an exploration of the ancient art of wet-felting. The process of blending wool fibers together to create an incredibly strong and versatile fabric. You will be introduced to some basic techniques of laying out wool fiber and processing the fiber into a 3 dimensional piece of felt using bubble wrap, soap, water and elbow grease! You’ll create a beautiful vessel out of soft and fluffy wool fibers to take home to dry and embellish to your hearts content!
Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine/beer/soft drink and lite bites.
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Kerry Sharkey-Miller
Kerry Sharkey-Miller is an artist from Sag Harbor, NY. She received a BFA from LIU Southampton and has an extensive background in fine art and media production. From 1987 until 1996, she owned and operated a successful art gallery in Southampton, New York, featuring the work of renowned contemporary Native American artists from the southwest region of the US. In 1997, she joined the media faculty of the Ross School in East Hampton , specializing in photography, digital printing, and stop-motion animation. As a faculty member there, she traveled extensively, taking students on annual trips that combined photography with humanitarian service to locations in Australia, Kenya, New Zealand, Brazil, Morocco, Peru, and throughout the United States.Kerry has developed a photographic body of work which is reflective of her passion for the beauty and fragility of the flora and fauna of our natural environment. Presenting her photographs in a variety of mediums, often creating unique substrates and experimenting with contemporary methods of alternative process that are much less toxic to humans and the environment. Recently, Kerry has been incorporating the art of creating felt from silk and wool fibers into her artistic practice and is currently working on a series of sculptural pieces inspired by her environmental photographs. Her photographic work has been featured in a wide array of museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and has earned her numerous awards.
Sponsors
Art Social Media Partner: James Lane Post
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through the Vital Projects Fund, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, Andrea and Jeffrey Lomasky, Peter Marino, Stephen Meringoff, and Eva Sandler.
