January 20 & 27, 2024
10:00 am—1:00 pm
In-Person
This workshop is an opportunity to work with Softwood Cellulose Nanofiber (CNF). The slurry which is processed at the University of Maine (UMO), is in its infancy as an art material. The workshop is broken into two: drying process and time to work through ideas. We will discuss what working with means versus control of material. The material dries into a bio-plastic, somewhat hydrophilic, extremely light and strong object, film, or whatever you create. Samples, some of the early research, and artist examples from UMO will be brought in.
Augusta Sparks
@augusta_sparks | andwithevery.com
At the edge of the forest and the edge of the sea, she lives in the dream world she imagined as a young child on the shores of Walkers Pond. With a strong undercurrent of curiosity, Sparks works with, and collaborates in her practice by showing up as herself to meet others' mastery. With a trust in the work that has been previously accomplished in multiple mediums, mixed with her ability to explore new ideas, Sparks’s work is ever-changing. Within her artistic research, she practices sensemaking, defined as a rumination through making. The last several years’ projects in the meds arts, forestry, and arts in health have pivoted her art practice. However, it is her work shifting Cellulose Nanofiber into an art medium that has taught her what sensemaking, loss of rules, working with, and curiosity mean to an artist’s practice.