Workshops

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Upcoming Workshops:

Community Paper Mache Workshops

TBA, 2023
North Portland, Oregon

Learn how to make giant paper mache creations in preparation for the 2023 All Souls Procession. Several sessions will be held for volunteers from late summer into the fall. More info to come...

Echoes in Time

June 26-30, 2023
Monmouth, Oregon

I regret to inform everyone I am not attending Echoes in Time in 2023 due to a scheduling conflict.

Previous Workshops:

A Magical Afternoon in the Fiber & Dye Garden

October 23, 2022
Green Anchors, Portland Oregon

With Ivy Stovall and Shelby Lynn from Rewild Portland. An introduction to eco-printing class to create botanically printed banners and flags for the upcoming All Souls River Procession, along with a flax processing demonstration by Fibrevolution (from flax grown onsite at Green Anchors), a Green Anchors natural dye plant garden tour, and natural fiber cordage making.

A 2022 Portland Textile X Month workshop to support future Wildland Roots, Rewild Portland's Weaver's Wheel, and Fibrevolution community events.

Mask-Making with Burlap, Bioplastic, and Natural Earth Pigments

Echoes in Time, Monmouth, Oregon, June 2022, July 2021 & July 2019
The Mud Hut, Portland, Oregon, October 2021
Green Anchors, Portland, Oregon, August 2019

An original mask-making technique I developed using a cornstarch-based "bioplastic" recipe to stiffen and shape sheets of reclaimed burlap over rigid face-forms. We made paint from natural pigments, then embellished the masks with color, natural fibers, and other natural objects.

Willow Lantern Workshop

Echoes in Time, Monmouth, Oregon, June 2022

Simple pyramid-shaped lantern frames made using willow branches and biodegradable paper mache.

Photo by Mellissa Berry, digitally edited by Wildland Roots

Masks & Adornment -
A Rewild Portland Free Skills Series Class

Green Anchors, Portland, Oregon, October 2021

A slideshow presentation on the history and cultural context of masks with a particular focus on the animistic traditions that lie beneath Halloween and other rites of fall and winter, followed by a hands-on adornment workshop with Ivy Stovall (Rewild Portland instructor and Echoes in Time kids program director).

More info on Rewild Portland's 2021 free skills series.

Other mask-making workshops I have taught:

Photo by Peraza Media, 2014

Basic Paper Mache Masks

Peninsula K-8 School, Portland, Oregon, Spring 2014

Assisted by Peninsula School SUN volunteers.

A ten session SUN after-school program for grades 3-8. Students learned basic mask-construction by using paper mache over a cardboard, tape and aluminium foil base, and designed their own wearable animal masks. For their final project, many of the students wore their completed masks as part of the Peninsula school's entry for the 2014 St Johns Parade.

Quick Cardboard Masks

Peninsula K-8 School, Portland, Oregon, April 2014

Assisted by Peninsula School teachers and parent volunteers.

A Peninsula K-8 School Family Night activity. Families spent an evening together cutting out and assembling cardboard animal masks from provided patterns*. Many students and family members then wore their completed masks as part of the Peninsula school's entry for the 2014 St Johns Parade.

*Patterns adapted from those by Douglas Witt