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Kristin Bly-Rogers :: Environmental Media :: Finely Low
     

2173 Lee Road <> Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118

     
March 14
12-6 PM
(ages 12 and up) Rags to Stitches
This workshop involves using scrap material, old clothing, etc to assemble new creations like fashion accessories, cuddly creatures, fantastic throw pillows, and much more.

MATERIAL TO BRING: Please bring your choice of found fabrics, some thread, needles, stuffing, and other accessories like buttons, tassels, and beads. Also, if you have a sewing machine that is easily transportable, please bring that as well.

     
March 21
12-6 PM
(ages 8 and up) Bead Bonanza:

Bead Bonanza is just what it claims. This is great session for kids, or for anyone who wants to design and assemble great sparkling accessories from scratch - Great items for gift giving!

MATERIAL TO BRING: Any good craft store will have a decent selection of beads (glass, plastic, porcelain - anything that can be threaded). Bring a few extra items to share with others in the class. A good bonanza means there's fun for ALL. For jewelry making, you may also want to have some clasps on hand.
     
March 28
12-6 PM
(ages 10 and up) Stack-it:

When we stack-it, we're going to take all your unused dishes and transform them into beautiful candy dishes. You might want to make a cool lamp from other found objects that have hollow interiors. Either way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary in this class.

MATERIAL TO BRING: Have an assortment of glass dishes (plates, bowls, glasses, etc.). You can pick-up plenty at a thrift store. For the lamp-making, have not only the objects you want to stack, but the basic hardware to wire your lamp (wire, plug-ends, bulb socket, etc.)

     
April 4
12-6 PM
(ages 12 and up) Waxing Practical:

Nothing pretentious here - just great candle-making fun. We will be using the pour/cast technique to make perfect-burning, aromatherapy candles from paraffin and bee's wax.

MATERIAL TO BRING: Again - off to the craft store. Bring some pure white paraffin as well as yellow wax, or bee's wax - just enough for yourself. You'll also need something to pour into. Frozen juice-mix containers work great. You might want to consider glass or tin containers where the candle will remain inside the form.

 
     
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FINELY > > > > As belabored debates continue to draw alleged distinctions between high art and low art, newsense enterprises constructs environments intended to blur such boundaries and to dispel assumptive inclinations toward hierarchy and pretension. In the installation, Finely Low: Applied Arts Workshop Series, newsense enterprises hosted a series of Sunday craft workshops during the run of an exhibition at Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Positioned in a gallery setting for 'fine artists', the newsense endeavor was, by context, pre-determinately a fine art contemporary installation. However, that designation, by content, was somewhat debunked by the presentation of craft workshops that have obvious connections to decorative genres commonly categorized as lowbrow and ineffectual. It was through this interplay between context and content that this newsense work undermined constructs that perpetuate black and white notions of high and low art. In so doing, the processes and products that emerged from the environment ascended their stigmatized association with lowness to become finely low…
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LOW > > > > As rough fights go on to show phony differences between paintings and pots, newsense enterprises has ideas that break down walls about the pecking order and all the uppity-ness. newsense taught some lessons, and called the whole thing Finely Low: Applied Arts Workshop Series at a gallery called Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights - over on the east side. The things that people made showed everyone that pots are just as good as paintings. We put our decorations on the walls of that gallery and people saw them for what they really are… finely low.

 

 

 

 

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