A new workshop with ceramic artist Katie Bramlage. March 30th at Found. We're loving our collection of ceramic work by Hazel Park artist Katie Bramlage of Make.Do.Studio. Her handbuilt clay bowls and assemblages have a modern, yet primitive feel... Read more.
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Playing with vintage paper. Collage and Card making at Found!
We're looking forward to another evening of vintage paper play, with local artist Laurie Longo on Thursday, Oct. 13th from 6:30-8:30 at FOUND.. For this event, Laurie will bring her voluminous stash of vintage papers...
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Learn to use Metal stamping tools while you make herb garden markers from vintage silverware, Saturday, June 18 at 2:00 at FOUND. The cost is just $12. Register by calling Found. 734-302-3060. Price includes materials for 3 herb garden stakes and use of stamping tools.
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Register for Chalk Paint Classes at FOUND. On Feb. 21, you can learn how to spruce up "tired" furniture and home accents using chalk paint. We discovered a brand the we LOVE to work with - Little Billy Goat paint. Read about it....
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But the beauty of this 3 hour class is that the techniques can easily be applied to other projects! More info and registration in our foundgallery workshop tab. Thursday, Oct. 18, 6:15. $38, includes all materials
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On February 16, Emily (and her sister Cara) will be teaching a patera workshop at FOUND. All the details and registration are here. It's called Through the Looking Glass. The participants will make earrings and a necklace, using findings from Nunn Design. It'll be fun!
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By the end of the day, most projects were finished and framed in shadow boxes. Some wonderfully creative work!
Here's the fun group of ladies (and John) at the end of the first workshop. Those smiles say it all!
The second Whipple workshop was 3-D assemblage in a found box - below is the group that joined us on Sunday. Some folks took both days of class and others just came for the assemblage class.
Most of the day, I was back at the shop, so missed getting photos of the finished boxes. My pictures are most works in progress...
It was another lively day, full of creativity!
Thanks Lynn & John, and all who participated.
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We were thrilled to host textile artist Chris Roberts-Antieau earlier this month. Lots of creative sketching, planning, cutting, ironing and sewing took place in those two days!
(Thanks to Pat Johnston who took these photos)
The workshop started with sketching and drawing. Then the fun of selecting colorful fabrics began!
Numerous tables throughout the room were STACKED with textiles of every color and pattern. At the beginning of the workshop, they were all arranged by color in very neat piles. By the end of the workshop, they looked like this. Lots of creatve textile combinations happened in the meantime.
Chris pulled out her scissors - instruction in cutting, fusing and layering commenced!
Slowly, but surely, fabric "pictures" began to evolve.
A good iron is essential in doing art the Roberts-Antieau way!
On the second day, the sewing began!
I was amazed as I watched everybody interpret their initial concepts onto fabric.
Two days wasn't nearly enough time to finish - work will continue at home.
The variety and lively use color and pattern in these projects was amazing. We need to schedule a reunion for this creative group of women in the autumn - after the finishing touches are completed.
We send a HUGE heartfelt THANK YOU to Chris (with help from Chris, Celibeth and Sylvia). We're so fortunate to know you!
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FOUND is hosting two mixed media workshops and a trunk show the weekend before Art Fairs with the Whipples. This is the second year that Lynn and John have agreed to teach. Registration is at FOUND or www.foundgallery.com. They are a couple of our favorite artists from the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair and we're thrilled to have them back again!
The Whipples started exhibiting at The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original in 2005, the same year that FOUND opened. My friend and shop assistant, Sylvia Lang brought them to FOUND the day after that fair ended, knowing that the odd vintage hardware and paper we carry would appeal to them. It's been interesting over the years to find "rust", antique epehemera, unusual surfaces and odd dodads for them - and the cadre of mixed media artists - that come to FOUND around Art Fair time.
If you've been to the fair, you probably recognize their work. Lynn is a mixed media collage and assemblage artist. John specializes in mixed media sculpture and painting. Their booths sit side by side near Burton Tower - and you'll often see Lynn playing the guitar in the grass near her booth.
Below are some links and photos. What the photos don't capture is what great instructors they are - you'll have to come to the workshops to see for yourself!
Here's John's website. A couple images doesn't begin to tell the story of his diverse ways of getting surfaces to have a look unlike any other artist. I'm facinated by the way he alters metal - especially rusty metal - to achieve unusual backgrounds for his paintings. Look closely at his 3-D piece for bits of old toys and bobbles. I love the surprise element in his work.
Here's Lynn's website. She is one of the nicest, most encouraging, creative, fun people you could ever take a class from. Her playfulness and sense of fun just spills out into her art. Many people know her for her "Ninny" series, but her creativity is alway reaching out in new directions.
I just love her large multi-layered collage birds. The Starling collage/painting was gigantic - I missed out on getting it for my living room last summer....
Here's a short version of our 3 days with Lynn & John Whipple at FOUND:
Friday, July 15th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Trunk Show & Welcome Party at FOUND. You'll get a preview of their new art before the official start of Art Fair - enjoy refreshments (we love cheese and the market downstairs has the best) - and maybe Lynn will play a little banjo music...or bring some other surprises.
Saturday, July 16. 10:00-4:00. Collage! Collage! Collage! day long mixed media collage workshop at the Kerrytown Concert House.
Sunday, July 17. 10:00-4:00. Assemblage in a Found Box workshop at the Kerrytown Concert House.
The trunk show and welcome party is free and open to the public. The workshops are $150/class. BONUS: If you refer a friend to come and have fun with you at the class, you'll both get a $10 FOUND gift card. If you already signed up and refer a friend, you'll also get a $10 gift card. Limit 5 friend bonus.
Register today on this website or by calling or stopping by the shop. 734.302.3060.
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