Summer Art Workshop Registration
July 18-22
W W, Woodworking for Women
Join eco-feminist artist Sasha Petrenko in this dynamic woodworking class, organized with women in mind. The workshop will cover the foundations of designing and building objects from wood in an inclusive and supportive environment. Topics will include wood identification, hand carving, shaping, lamination, joinery, jig making, laser cutting, and nontoxic finishing techniques. Optional readings will support class discussions and presentations on sustainable, ecological art practices.
Sasha Petrenko is an interdisciplinary artist and Artistic Director of The New Urban Naturalists. Her work utilizes sculpture, performance, social practice and new media to draw parallels between ecology and human relationships. Currently Sasha is developing an ecological rock opera combining interactive sound installations, live musical performance, dance and video projections. Petrenko’s projects have been featured widely at national and international venues including the Watermill Center for Performance in New York, Kebbel Villa in Schwandorf, Germany, Kulturfolger in Zurich Switzerland, the Los Angeles County Arboretum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Sonoma State University, Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Her interviews and work have been featured on college and public radio stations, including KALX at the University of California Berkeley and KALW in San Francisco, and her writing has been published in Leonardo/ISAST (The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology) from MIT Press. She has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, The Djerassi Foundation, the LAB, KALA Art Institute in California, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York.
website: The New Urban Naturalists