SCRAP Camp is an adventure learning about creative reuse, art, and the environment! In this week long class, students get to explore a world of unexpected possibilities through creative reuse that only SCRAP can offer.

Teaching artist Laura Boles Faw will lead students in building mosaics and 3D mosaic sculptures using materials found at SCRAP. Students will be introduced to a variety of mosaic techniques and building skills and learn about artists whose work incorporates creative reuse and mosaics in inventive ways. Students will be encouraged to consider sustainability as a part of their creative process and learn about the variety of materials at SCRAP.

About Laura
Laura Boles Faw is an artist, curator, and educator who received her MFA from SFAI.  She is a teacher in various programs including SFAI’s City Studio, the Meridian Interns Program, the Adult Continuing Education Program at SFAI and most recently was visiting faculty in the sculpture department.  During the school year, Laura teaches a  City Studio sculpture class for teens at SCRAP.

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Have a fun party or celebration right around the corner or coming up over the summer? In this workshop avid SCRAPper and artist Monica Lee will share her DIY ideas for party decorations using and repurposing everyday items and materials found at SCRAP. Table center pieces, place settings, “goody” bags and boxes, bows, invites, tags, garlands, and banners large and small are some of the project ideas she will present. Starting the workshop off demonstrating a few projects Monica will then open it up for individuals to work on their specific interests. There will be a table full of fantastic and inspirational decoration ideas that each participant can tailor to their needs!

About Monica
Monica Lee has been a professional photographer for 30 years and is a life long crafter. She is currently the Artist in Resident at Ruth’s Table (A Center for Creative Growth Rooted in the life of artist Ruth Asawa) at the Bethany Center where she teaches art workshops using found, new, and repurposed materials open to all ages in the community. She has volunteered for many years in the public schools working on art auction projects and where ever she is needed. Check out what she is up to on her blog  www.artfulrecrafter.com.

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DIY papermaking is messy but a lot of fun! It makes a highly textured sheet of paper that feels wonderful and can be used for many projects or even as an artwork in itself. Once you get the technique down, you can make many sheets of paper in a variety of colors. Join us in welcoming Susan Peterson as she teaches participants how to make paper pulp to create different kinds of paper. She will show participants how to make & use a mold and deckle as well as how to make beautiful paper with inclusions such as colored or metallic paper bits, flower petals, or other fun materials that can be found at SCRAP. Papermaking is relaxing and fun, and the results are fabulous!

About Susan
Susan Peterson is an artist and arts educator with more than 20 years of experience. Growing up just outside Boston she moved to Arizona for graduate school. The wide-open spaces have kept her in the west, settling in San Francisco. This landscape, as well as travels to Africa and Asia, have had a strong influence on her work. Susan is a ceramicist but loves all crafts and runs Craft Labs. She has a studio in the Mission district in a former mayonnaise factory.

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Artist Remi Rubel is well-known for her bottle-cap quilts and other creations. Join us as she shares her whimsy and SCRAPpy techniques to make small assemblage sculptures that can stand freely or hang on a wall. In this workshop Remi will show you how to design and assemble components found at SCRAP to make small mixed media sculptures. She will share a range of techniques of how to connect pieces together including using wire and both pop and hammered rivets. Participants should be comfortable using a variety tools such as pliers and hammers.

About Remi
Remi Rubel is an environmental artist well-known for her inventive use of bottle caps and road-kill metals in her sculpture, murals, garments and jewelry. Her artwork has been worn by Sandra Bullock and exhibited at the Oakland Museum and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Remi loves to teach the art of “Trashformation” with Richmond District Neighborhood Center, local schools and camps. She has had residencies at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, San Francisco’s Recology Program and the California Arts Council.  Her work has been published in Artweek, Mirabella and USA Today. She earned her Masters degree in Fine Arts from California College of Arts and Crafts.

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Just in time for Mothers Day… April showers bring May flowers to SCRAP! Dorothy Yuki will present a myriad of flower-making techniques using SCRAP materials like paper, fabric, and notions to make the perfect accouterments for gifts, bags, coats, hats, or as a gift in itself!

About Dorothy
A past manufacturer and a design and production consultant for the fashion industries, Dorothy’s path has been one of an adventure through graphic arts, real estate development, fashion designing and crafting in the US, Europe, South America and Mexico.  She is a member of the Friends of Calligraphy and Pacific Center for Book Arts in San Francisco.  Her passion in all things creative has taken her to teaching at various venues in San Francisco and the Sierra Gorda Biosphere.  An active scrounger, her favorite store is Scrap! Check out her Adventures in Art blog – www.dotsrainbow.blogspot.com.

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In this workshop Marion will demonstrate how to do DIY silkscreen with her own portable silkscreen studio from stretching a screen, to printing an image. Participants will receive instructions on how to build such a portable printmaking studio from mostly scrap materials. Then participants will expose their own images to a screen, and learn to print. Marion will then show participants one of her own techniques, working with a SCRAP photo frame to create a unique print on glass, which can then be painted or collaged into.

About Marion
Marion Hunt is a graduate of Cooper Union, where she studied film.  She makes hand manipulated found footage 16mm films, and two-dimensional works using various printmaking methods and found materials on transparencies and glass. She is also the Co-founder of the New Haven Free Store, where she ran creative reuse workshops in Summer 2011.

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In this full-day workshop artist and teacher Francisco Hernandez will lead participants in the creation of Joseph Cornell-inspired boxed or framed assemblages using found objects and treasures from SCRAP. Particpants will learn how to reshape or resize a frame, or add divisions to a box, to use as a base in creating a mixed media diorama. Participants will explore how the context of ordinary objects changes by placing them within an inspired frame or box and investigate how to bring disparate elements together to create a personally meaningful tableau. Everyone will leave with a completed sculptural piece. No special skills are required, but definitely bring your imagination!

About Francisco
Francisco Hernandez is a 5th-grade teacher, boat-builder, sculptor, and frequent SCRAP shopper. His students have created model bridges, buildings, windmills, and dams using SCRAP materials, and he spent a recent weekend building a coop for three rescued chickens. Francisco loves that at SCRAP “there’s a whole lot of material inspiration under one roof!”.

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WE SCRAP! Workshops for Educators : Creative Reuse Projects for the Classroom

As funding for art education and public education in general continues to be cut from government budgets we want to renew our mission to get supplies into the hands of teachers who need them and reinforce the importance of creativity in the lives and education of children. Running in conjunction with our Monthly Teacher Material GiveAways for San Francisco teachers on the first Saturday of every month, SCRAP is piloting a program for teachers called WE SCRAP! It stands for Workshops for Educators.

Every first Saturday SCRAP will be holding a WE SCRAP! workshop presenting a creative reuse project that can be used in the classroom that uses SCRAP materials and directly ties into the curriculum. These workshops will be taught by creative arts professionals and educators themselves. In the workshops participants will have the opportunity to create and will obtain a materials package to teach the project in their own classroom complete with an instruction sheet that includes a list of California Content Standards that the project fulfills.

The 2 to 3 hour workshops are just $15. To register email workshops@scrap-sf.org or call (415) 647-1746.

The first in a series of workshops we like to call WE SCRAP! The idea is to present creative reuse projects that tie into the curriculum and use materials offered at SCRAP’s teacher material give-aways.

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WE SCRAP! Pilot Workshop -

Classroom Fabric Banners & Quilts
presented by Patricia Christensen & Rebekah Werth
Saturday, April 7th
10am – 1pm     fee: $15

SCRAP has a wide selection of wonderful fabrics that can be used to make easy one-piece fabric crayon banners for your classroom, school hallway, special event or at home with your own children. Teachers Patricia Christensen and Rebekah Werth will walk participants through the process of making banners as well as individual pieces and classroom quilts with fabric crayons, pastels, fabric markers and textile paint. Participants will be presented with an instruction sheet including a list of California Content Standards that this project fulfills. They will also be given a classroom package of materials for this project.

About Patricia and Rebekah
Patricia Christensen has a BA and MA in Textiles and Design. She has been teaching art to students of all ages forFabric Banner 30 years and is currently a SFUSD Art Teacher in the Elementary School STAR Program.

Rebekah Werth has been making quilts since 2003. She has taught many elementary school students and adults beginning sewing. Most recently she taught “Quilting for Newbies in the New Year” at Gravel & Gold.

Email workshops@scrap-sf.org or call SCRAP at (415)647-1746 to register and reserve your spot.

Join us in welcoming back artist Courtney Cerruti for this all-day workshop of fun to create one-of-a-kind assemblage animals. Courtney will show participants how to fashion an armature and sculpt animal forms out of paper maché. Then embellish them with wacky and fun findings from within the depths of SCRAP. Use papers, metals, woods, fabrics and ephemera of all sorts to create your own unique animal, real or imagined! This workshop is suitable for beginners and advanced students.

About Courtney
Courtney Cerruti is a maker extraordinaire. From doing window displays for Anthropologie to wedding installations, to teaching workshops throughout the Bay Area and abroad, Courtney sees everyday materials as potential art. For Courtney, books are objects to be read and re-purposed, candy wrappers are paper flower petals, and toilet paper tubes are a menagerie of animals…
Using everyday materials she creates unique and precious objects that tell a story. Her most recent body of work is Animal Anomalies, is a collection of life-sized misfit paper animals made from recycled and found papers and books and can be seen at Paxton Gate in the Mission. Check out more of her work on her website, www.ccerruti.com

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