Creative Sculpture Workshop – Introduction to Modeling Clay at Mulberry Street Library

By Mulberry Street Branch NYPL

Jul 14  |  Community

Creative Sculpture Workshop at Mulberry Street Library – SoHo Neighborhood Resources

Introduction to Modeling Clay With Sculptor Yasmin Gur

Create a prototype from Modeling Clay using a fruit as model.

Includes an explanation and demonstration of how to create a prototype from modeling clay using fruits as a model. Jump in and learn to get the information of shape, contour, and proportion by looking and measuring and then use your hands and clay tools to recreate the fruit . We will work from the general to the specific, from overall form to surface details and textures, and how to use it to maximize the feeling of volume and gravity.

Yasmin Gur is an native Israeli artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent sculpture is built with reclaimed wood.  Using weathered material, she appropriates the histories of her salvaged material to create structures that evoke the living processes of an organism. Her work, biomorphic yet geometric abstract forms in wood, metal, and other materials, embodies sensuality, ambiguity, and ambivalence. Her public commissions include Roberson Museum & Science Center at Binghamton,NY, and Reading Garden Outdoor Sculpture for PS166, New York, NY.

Ms. Gur earned her MFA from Brooklyn College, NY and received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. Her work has been widely exhibited in Israel, and the United States. In 2015, she was awarded an Art Sprinter Award, an international award, which recognizes talented, emerging Jewish artists.

For more information visit  www.yasmingur.com

This class is for Adults 18+. No experience with art is necessary, open to beginners through experienced artists.
Registration is required and space is limited. You can sign up at the Information Desk at the library or call 212 –966-3424. This workshop is sponsored by the Sculptors Alliance. 

Creative Sculpture Workshops is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net, and presented by Sculptors Alliance, Inc.

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