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Registration is required for all workshops.

DIY KITE MAKING

Age: kids and adults welcome

This class aims to show you how to make three simple flyable paper kites with inexpensive materials. Create and design your paper kite using repeating stamp patterns, stencils, and dye. After the class completes construction, everyone will have an opportunity to fly their own in Thurber Park.

Sunday, March 17, 12-2pm: REGISTER

Sunday, April 14, 12-2pm: REGISTER

Sunday, April 21, 12-2pm: REGISTER

Sunday, May 19, 12-2pm: REGISTER

RELIEF LINOCUT

Age: adult

This class aims to introduce you to linoleum relief carving and printing. This class will provide you with a block, tools, and paper you will need to design and make your own handmade prints. Prints will be made by hand burnishing as well as using a fine art printing press. No experience necessary, all levels are welcome.

Monday, April 15, 6-8pm: REGISTER

Monday, April 22, 6-8pm: REGISTER

FISH WINDSOCKS!

Age: elementary-age kids

Come create artwork on your own carp windsock and individual wind wand. Fly the windsock with the class after and see the beautiful school of fish play together. 

Sunday, May 5, 12-2pm: REGISTER

Ash Armenta (they/them) is a non-binary artist from the Bay Area of California working in printmaking. They are a recent 2022 graduate of the MFA Printmaking program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ash completed a two year program specializing in lithography at Tamarind Institute and received the title of Tamarind Master Printer in 2017. They received their Bachelor of Art at The University of California Santa Cruz in 2011 with a concentration in Printmaking.

Ash enjoys collaborating with other artists to connect the public to a fine art sphere of printmaking with live pop-up printmaking events. They have previously organized three steamroller street printing events and recently organized an international call to artists for a 2022 exhibition, Queer Printmaking and Futurity. Ash is committed to continuing to engage with their LGBTQ community within their own practice.

Ash Armenta was selected by a jury in 2022 and began as the Thurber Park Artist-in-Residence in Fall 2022.

During their residencies at Thurber Park, artists are invited to create public art with the city of Madison in mind. Please contact Karin Wolf at kwolf@cityofmadison.com re: Public art created by Thurber Park artists.

Find out about how the Thurber Park residency came to be and more about how the process works to apply.