Build a Tiny House: Mixed Media Sculpture Workshop

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• Thursday, Jan 14, 2021  6pm - 7:30pm

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With more of our time and focus at home right now, we hope you will join us for a fun and creative hands-on workshop - Build a Tiny House: Mixed Media Sculpture Workshop. This three-part series, with artist Marcie Wolf-Hubbard, will take place Thursdays, January 14, 21 & 28 6pm-7.30pm.

This is a FREE event, but space is limited and you must register in advance. Ages 12 and up.

About Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard's colorful collages are about the feelings and memories attached to places she has been or to which she can imagine having gone. She mentally travels to distant locales and time travels to different eras. Each postcard in Wolf-Hubbard's work becomes a piece of a story that might have been; colors flow from her imaginings to breach the borders of the Mediterranean Sea or to bridges, roads and canals. The blur of colors and images suggests the speed of travel and the evanescence of the tourist's experience. Thus we are privileged to follow her into her personal time and space and to make it our own.

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard received her B.A. from the University of Maryland in Studio Art and studied

Fine Art and Illustration at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her paintings have been exhibited widely on the East Coast. She has illustrated for magazines and books and worked as a courtroom artist.

Marcie is an instructor at Glen Echo Park, Yellow Barn Studio and Smithsonian Associates. She also teaches art in her studio.

Marcie and her husband, David Hubbard, have collaborated on a children's book, The Shiny Shell, an eco-adventure book about a boy and a dolphin on a mission to save the oceans. They are currently working on a book of David's short stories and poems and Marcie's encaustic (hot wax) paintings, which have inspired David's writing. Poems From Within is the first book in the series.
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Build a Tiny House (Mixed Media Sculpture) Supply List
Thursdays, January 14, 21 & 28 6-7:30 PM

Supplies
Roll of tape, (masking tape works best -1”)
Scissors
Xacto knife
Surface to cut on
Ruler, straight edge
Glue stick (such as Elmer’s, Avery, UHU etc.) (large size if available- .77 oz)
Metal spoon
Small bowl for mixing up paper mache or plastic deli/margarine container
Newspapers, or old magazines, scrap paper, junk mail, etc.
Cardboard containers (all sizes), (for ex. Milk cartons, Oatmeal and Coffee round cylinder containers)
Mat board scraps
Cardboard from food containers (for ex. cereal boxes, frozen food packaging)
Cardboard
Acrylic paint, including white acrylic paint to prime your house
Brushes
Containers for paint, water (for ex. takeout container with lid), and extra lids for mixing colors

For paper mache:
Flour, salt, water

OPTIONAL:
Acrylic gesso paint
Acrylic gel medium
YES glue
Kwik Seal CLEAR adhesive Caulk* (my preference for attaching metal, bling, heavier items) Or Hot glue gun

Think about making prints on your house with textures you might find with:
packaging materials, bubble wrap, corrugated cardboard, Cardboard coffee protectors (Starbucks, etc) old comb, Paper clips

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Hello, I’m looking forward to our Build a Tiny House class. No experience required! just plan to
experiment, take chances, have fun. Wear old clothes (including old pants and old shoes). Wear something you don’t mind getting paint on. Below is a list of miscellaneous items if you’d like to include in YOUR tiny house. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
http://www.marciewolfhubbard.com/
marcieplusart@gmail.com

Suggestions for items to use in collage/mixed media art - do not limit yourself to
this list! It is best to have MORE items than you need to make choices of what to include in
your mixed media Tiny House.
Found objects & small items from home, or nature:
Items that “catch your eye" (shiny, colorful, or drab) - Items with texture (not flat, but having ridges)
String or ribbon
Packing materials
Cardboard coffee protectors (Starbucks, etc)
Bottle caps
(Clean) candy, gum wrappers or colorful food wrapping
Postcards or maps
Postage stamps (used)
Key chains or magnets of miniature objects, icons
(Stray) buttons, game pieces, scrabble letters, domino, chess pieces
Old magazines
Beads
Fabric, Lace, sewing notions
Please note: items may be altered, cut up, or painted over. Items (letter or photographs of significance) may be photocopied so as not to destroy.

JAN 14
Intro, Preliminary Design, Start Construction

JAN 21
Paper Mache (2-3 days to dry)

JAN 28
Prime, Paint, Decorate (Options: Collage, Textures, Printing, etc.)
Bling it on! (Options: More textures, printing, text)

Supplies
To construct: 1/14/2021
Cardboard containers (all sizes), (for ex. Milk cartons, Oatmeal and Coffee round cylinder containers)
Mat board scraps
Cardboard from food containers (for ex. cereal boxes, frozen food packaging)
Cardboard
Tape (masking tape best)
Scissors, xacto knife
surface to cut on
Ruler, straight edge
May use Glue stick in construction phase also (such as Elmer’s, Avery, UHU etc.), or YES glue

Paper Mache: 1/21/2021
Flour, Water, Salt, bowl, spoon
Newspapers or old magazines, scrap paper, junk mail etc
Painting & Details: 1/28/2021
Acrylic paint and brushes
White acrylic paint or gesso to prime it first
Plastic lids, carry out containers for water, mixing paint
Optional: Acrylic Gel medium

Scissors, xacto knife
Adhesive: Glue stick such as Elmer’s, Avery, UHU etc.), or YES glue
Miscellaneous papers (scraps- think color, patterns, old book pages, food wrapping, etc.)
Bling—broken jewelry, orphaned earrings, game pieces, etc
Caulking (clear), silicone or Hot glue gun
May also attach with wire