Date: Saturday, May 6, 2023
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Instructor: Meg Heeres

Learn to create paper with local invasive and cultivated desert plants! This 3-hour workshop will introduce participants to papermaking with local plant material, as well as processing and prepping pulp techniques, pulling successful sheets of paper, and how to create inclusions with found materials. Students will make sample sheets of the different desert fibers to take home. This class will focus on the science and the art of papermaking as well as how to set up your own diy papermaking set up.

Participants are encouraged to bring materials to embed into their paper. Recommended materials include; dried plants, collage materials, drawings, old prints or letters, wire, ribbon, thread, feathers, thin metal, thin wood, or anything else you are excited about that you want to embed in your paper sheets

Instructor Info
Megan Heeres’s art practice and professional endeavors have connected into a cooperative way of working with community both inside and outside of the studio. These collaborations engage with place, people, art and plants. She participates in projects locally in Detroit and nationally, most recently at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco and the Broad Art Lab at Michigan State University. Megan has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Michele Schara Residency, the Ragdale Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Women’s International Study Center. She is represented by the Simone DeSousa Gallery in Detroit, Michigan and has works in many private collections. She graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with a Master's of Fine Art in 2009 and from the Residential College at the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's of Art in 2002.

For more information on Megan’s work visit: www.meganheeres.com