Join Sawtooth School for Visual Art and the Undying Yearning project team for a guided collage and gelli plate printing experience that combines personal reflection with texture building and image-collage techniques. The workshop will explore both yours and community members' high-school and college memories and experiences as you reflect on school days and build community with "Katie B." and "Big Four" alumni. Learn about lesser-known aspects of Winston-Salem's history and bring at least ten 4 x 6 to 8 x 10-inch personal photographs or letters of your favorite school memories to photocopy. You can also bring yearbooks and other times to be scanned. Register for the event here.
Classes will be taught by Sauda Mitchell, a printmaker, certified archivist, and educator from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They’ll take pace at the Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness.
Participants will do the following during the workshop:
Explore texture-building, collage, and image-transfer techniques
Create multiple gelli plate prints to contribute to a new artist book made by artist Sauda Mitchell to commemorate the Undying Yearning project
Undying Yearning is a project that peers into the past of Winston-Salem, North Carolina to understand how and why the city's Black institutions thrived. It is a partnership between consultant and Black on Black founder Michael S. Williams and the North Carolina Museum of Art. It is made possible through funding from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.