Drawing with Sewing Patterns

Artist/Instructor: Kathy Shiroki
Wednesday, June 18
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Fee: $30 members/$40 not-yet members 

All supplies included 

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Join an innovative workshop where participants create a complex, layered drawing using sewing pattern lines. “During last winter’s storm, I pulled out old sewing patterns. As I cut and tore the paper patterns, I glued the lines and curves, creating a composition of shapes and movement. Inspired by what I saw and heard outside my window, the layering (especially fun because of the transparency of the thin pattern paper) helped guide my direction. No markers, pens, or pencils were used. Instead, I was guided by the pattern’s arrows, lines, and curves—markers that seamstresses use to indicate direction.” 

Kathy Gaye Shiroki
Kathy Shiroki is the Manager of University and Adult Programming at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She enjoys engaging in conversations with works of art and integrating that conversation into our lives. Kathy’s teaching experience is diverse, she was an art-in-residence in one-room schoolhouses in Montana, taught college classes in Wyoming and Seattle, and now teaches at SUNY Buffalo State University. She earned her MFA from the University of California, San Diego and her BFA from Temple University, Tyler School of Art and her Associates from Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of American Craftsmen. 

For further information, please contact Kathy G. Shiroki, shirokkg@buffalostate.edu