Wood and Paper Constructed Votive

Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced
July 19, 20245- 1 Session (Saturday)
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Instructor: Kim Keats
Class Fee: $60.00 non-members + $15.00 Supply Fee
             $54.00 BRMAA members + $15.00 Supply Fee
            
   Join artist and instructor Kim Keats as she provides instruction and the materials for the creation of a votive form that has both enclosed and open areas, which utilize the art elements space and light, and incorporate the design principal balance. Participants will learn wood joinery techniques to fabricate the framework constructed from basswood strips. Mulberry paper will be applied to the framework structure using glue to create enclosed spatial areas. Wood joinery techniques using sawing tools, clamps and glue will be taught and students will learn to measure, cut, and apply mulberry paper to wood votive structures. Participants will complete one wood and paper constructed votive structure.
Wood and Paper Constructed Votive Registration & Supply Fee
Call (706) 258-4322 for questions regarding this course and registration.  Payment is required to register for BRMAA courses. You may pay via PayPal above, over the phone, or visit The Art Center located at 420 West Main Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 to pay in person. 
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INSTRUCTOR - KIM KEATS

   The objects that I make are intended to honor or memorialize the origin of the materials from which they are made. I primarily use bark, twigs, and wood harvested in a sustainable manner from a variety of highland trees, which grow in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Harvesting bark and twigs is a considerable part of the overall process and is seasonable and laborious. The bark is manipulated while wet and sewn together with waxed linen thread. Combined interlacing techniques are employed to weave the waxed linen thread onto bark or wooden structures. Palmetto roots are harvested from South Carolina lowcountry trees that have fallen due to coastal erosion. Each root is individually cut, sanded, and randomly woven onto found driftwood branches. Tree imagery is an inextricable part of the form and content in each artwork creation. Influences of a variety of indigenous cultures are reflected in the materials, techniques, and narratives. 
   Kim Keats holds a BFA from Augusta State University, pursued graduate studies in Fibers at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and received an MFA in Sculpture from Georgia Southern University. Kim’s fiber works have been featured in museums exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, the Museum of York County in Rock Hill, SC, the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, AL, along with the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL. She has received merit and best of show awards in juried exhibitions and her works have been in the traveling exhibits, Palmetto Hands, Craft of the Carolinas, and Material Objects. Her sculptures are in institutional collections including the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, Mark B. Coplan Collection of Art at the South Carolina State Museum, City of North Charleston SC Public Art Collection, and the Medical University of South Carolina’s Contemporary Carolina Collection at the Ashley River Tower. She is the recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission’s 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Craft. Ms. Keats teaches for the University of South Carolina Beaufort and recently retired from teaching at the Savannah College of Art and Design.