Pattern-Making

Artist/Instructors: Stacy Hubbard and Kathy Shiroki

Artists, art lovers, and writers are all welcome.

Supplies are included

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This workshop will take its inspiration from the exhibition “Patterned World: The Wallpaper Art of Charles E. Burchfield,” which investigates Burchfield’s innovative wallpaper designs and how they informed his painting career. Participants will be guided through the exhibition to consider aspects of Burchfield’s decorative designs, especially repetition, depth, and arrangement. We’ll also consider some of the parallels between visual pattern-making and the verbal patterns used to create prose poems, such as those of Gertrude Stein and Lyn Hejinian. Then we’ll conduct our own experiments with combining poetry and collage using wallpaper samples, pencils, pens, and paint. 

Writers and visual artists welcome, from novice to advanced. 

Stacy Hubbard

Stacy Hubbard is Associate Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Buffalo where she received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her specializations include modernist and experimental women’s poetry, transcendentalist literature, and American material and cultural studies. She is currently studying watercolor and collage through various Burchfield Penney workshops and reading through Charles Burchfield’s journals.  

Kathy Shiroki

Kathy Shiroki is the Manager of University and Adult Programs at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and Adjunct faculty at SUNY Buffalo State. She is interested in the conversation between text and image, the creator and receiver, and the act of giving. She likes to create small works that become everyday souvenirs.

For further information, please contact Kathy Gaye Shiroki at: shirokkg@buffalostate.edu