Date: Monday, March 27, 2023
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Instructor: E.S. Mahler

A free demonstration for artists who are interested in exploring new and sustainable materials in their creative practice. The demo will cover how to create a biobased material and how to manipulate its basic properties (flexibility, weight, castability, sculpt-ability) through household ingredients and simple processes (heat, drying, blending). We will focus on two main ingredients: Agar agar and starch. Both can be used to create material jumping off points for experimentation. No experience necessary!

Please Note: This is an in-person event. Registration required. Space is limited. If you register and are unable to attend please let us know.

Instructor Info
E.S. Mahler is the working name of Emily Steinfeld. She works with elaborately invented materials made from bioplastics and biocomposites to create ecological and often kinetic sculpture. Her sculptures are materials-based in the poiesis way, with no single system of knowledge taking precedence and the materials themselves as important as anything else.
Mahler holds an MFA from Art Center Pasadena and a BFA from Bard College. She organizes shows under the project name Custom Self Storage and builds low-energy websites through her company, No Wave Site. She was born in Brooklyn and continues to live there.

For more information on Mahler’s work visit: www.es-mahler.com