Friday, June 19, 2009

Free Workshop and Lecture with Laura Kimpton

photo: Jaz Fabry

Laura Kimpton Photo: Toohip Tobesquare

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LAURA KIMPTON
The Reflection Series Free Artist Workshop Assemblage, Image Transfer, and Encaustic Wax
McKinley Arts & Culture Center

925 Riverside Drive
Reno, Nv 89503

Saturday June, 27th 2009
10-4
to Pre-Register please call 775-334-6264,
send email to sullivana@cityofreno.com
Registration at the Door on a Space Available Basis.

Come make art with Laura Kimpton The Reflection Series Art Workshop will introduce you to making Mixed Media artwork using techniques including Assemblage, Image Transfer, and Encaustic Wax. Laura will give a live demonstration of the various processes. She will also instruct and guide individual attendees at the Workshop to complete actual artwork. Participants are requested to bring a small piece of vintage luggage, personal items for collage, and vintage photographs for image transfers, all to be included in their own Mixed Media art creations.

Laura Kimpton:
Kimpton has a Bachelors of Art Education from the University of Iowa, a Fine Art Degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, and earned her Masters from the University of San Francisco. She is also creator of the Celtic Forest installation at Burning Man.


Celtic Forest will be installed on River Walk in Reno, Nevada from June through December, and simultaneously opens on the same weekend as the Kimpton Art Workshop and Lecture.

In addition, Kimpton is giving a Free Lecture from 6pm to 7pm, also at the Mckinley Art Center. We will be there and we hope you will too.




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