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January 25: Lunar New Year Embossed Snake

Lunar New Year begins January 29th and is the year of the snake. The City of Albuquerque is home to many events to celebrate, including a yearly event at the Chinese Culture Center, which is beautifully captured by Frank Dominguez in “All the World's a Stage,” a section of the Photo Archives exhibition Good In Everything. Using foil and Sharpie marker, create an embossed snake to welcome the new year!

Instructor: Harley Kirschner

Feb 1 : Mixed-Media Nature Scenes

Drawing from materials and themes in the Vivarium and Broken Boxes exhibitions, use a combination of fabric, paper, and thread to create a vibrant nature-inspired collage in this workshop.

Instructor: Shelly Korte

February 8: Insect Shrinky Dinks

Inspired by the Vivarium exhibition, create magical Shrinky Dink insects which can be worn as pins, earrings, or necklaces.

Instructor: Harley Kirschner

February 15: Paper Puppets

Inspired by Mario Ybarra Jr.’s parade float puppets in the Broken Boxes exhibition, make paper puppets to celebrate yourself or someone special in your life.

Instructor: Remy Sinegal

February 22: Vintage Shaped Photo Frame

Inspired by the 1900s Mail Delivery Wagon in the exhibition Only in Albuquerque, create paper wagons with a variety of materials and historic photos from our Photo Archives.

Instructor: Harley Kirschner

Harley Kirschner is a mixed media artist and art instructor. He has a passion for mixed media, incorporating many different techniques into each object he makes. Although his roots are in collage and painting, he has been exploring place-based art for over a decade with students and has created permanent installations on his own. This is where his passion for garden art comes in. In addition to creating magical worlds, Harley has a passion for textiles and is always exploring new techniques to enliven fabric.

Michelle (Shelly) Korte is a multimedia artist—painting, drawing, sculpting, collaging, writing, printmaking, and performing. She is fascinated by the ways in which ecology, industry and ceremony interest - defining the role of humans as animals, consumers, and healers. As a curious traveler and investigator, Shelly has taught and shown her work around the world for over 20 years. As an educator, she also allows art to be a conduit of self-inquiry, expression, and problem solving. She has lived in the Manzano Mountains of Tijeras, NM with her young son since 2014 where she has been growing a creative, communal arts and healing space.

Remy Sinegal was born in California, coming to the University of New Mexico for college where she received a Bachelors in Art with a minor in Medieval Studies. She is a poet and illustrator, using a variety of media such as pencils, paints, pastels, sculpture and digital media. History both true and fictional inspire the themes of her work. Inspired by multicultural mythology, folklore, as well as modern influences like animated media, wildlife and how everyone's personal experiences shape the world around them. Believing that there is magic in embracing the mundanity of life she tries to create something exceptional and fun every time she picks up a pencil. The art of storytelling to pass on cultural superstitions inspires her to write, and illustrate her own fantastical tales, which she hopes to bring to life one day through graphic novels or animation.

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