Event Title:

Organization:

  Visual Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  8/2/2025

End Date:

  8/2/2025

Start Time:

  10:00 AM

End Time:

  4:00 PM

Event Info: 

  August 2, August 9, and August 16 from 10AM - 4PM

Explore the historic technique of Scagliola-a decorative process that transforms plaster, pigment, and rabbit skin glue into richly colored, marble-like surfaces. Over two days, you'll create custom molds using a vacuform machine and found objects, then mix and press your own Scagliola into the forms. No kiln required! This accessible, hands-on workshop is perfect for artists, designers, or anyone curious about experimental surface-making. Participants leave with a small collection of unique, hand-crafted tiles.

Prerequisite: None. Students must be 18+ years or older at the start of the class.

Students Should Bring:

A small selection of found objects (e.g., flowers, textured stones, trinkets, tools, lace, etc.) to use for mold-making

Notebook/sketchbook and pen for notes or design ideas

Closed-toe shoes and clothes suitable for messy work

Small plastic containers or boxes to transport finished tiles


Instructor Bio: I use sculptural form to tell mythical stories about motherhood, ancestral disconnection, spiritual vacancy and discovery, grief, internalized Anti Semitism and homesickness. I use materials intentionally to scrape, stab and scour at certain cultural signifiers relevant to my experience growing up in a working class Ashkinazi family on Cree, Ojibwe and Metis land, colonially known as Winnipeg, Manitoba. I wonder if synthetic materials are the hyper-embodiment of generational trauma. My work examines the fractures in familial, ecological and spiritual relationships. Through the sculptural process, I pursue visual modalities of healing, submission and liberation.

I examine and re-examine how my creative practice and my spiritual practice are the same strange thing. I am Mother to Galileo, an Associate Professor of Sculpture at California College of the Arts, Goalie for the Oakland Night Herons and run the kitchen at my Shul.

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Location:

  California College of the Arts - 145 Hooper

Room:

Address:

  145 Hooper St

Phone:

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA