Marking Memories, Reflecting on Loss Art Workshop with Joan Giroux

Join us for a Clam Shell Box Making Workshop with Squire Artist in Residence Joan Giroux and Lisa Marie Kaftori at Art From Scrap.

Throughout our lives we experience moments of loss, reflection, and critical moments of change. In this workshop, you are invited to create a memory box to hold small objects, texts, and ephemera that harbor personal significance to you, your history, or your environment. Alongside the boxes, we will make small paper and clay items as memory objects to support the sharing of your thoughts, stories, and experiences. Participants will create images on sheets of paper that will in turn be used to cover and assemble a small hand-held clam shell box. Some elements of the clams hell boxes will be prepared in advance.

After assembling the memory boxes, we will discuss and explore ways handwritten text and assembled ephemera can capture elusive memories and introspection’s, creating small 4 x 6 single signature books and using air-dry clay to make imprints to be stored in the memory boxes. Each participant will leave the workshop with a small clam shell box, a single signature book, and clay object.

Registration is required. No experience is necessary. Please bring any small objects, memorabilia, or photographs that can become part of your memory box.