Bioplastics Workshop with Kat Sours

Join fiber artist Kat Sours for a fun workshop exploring how to make pigmented gelatin-based bioplastic for the purpose of textile embellishment. In the first part of the demo Kat will give a tutorial on bioplastic production. Since this material typically takes 2-3 days to cure, the artist will provide premade bioplastic to be used in the second part of the demo, where students will create their own eco-friendly embellishments to create a piece of embroidered artwork to take home.

Supplies will be provided (embroidery frames, fabric, thread, hole punch, scissors)

Kat Sours is a New York-based artist who connects physical and emotional feelings through textiles. Kat combines traditional textile practices like knitting and embroidery with unconventional mediums, such as latex, rubbers and vinyl. She is constantly pushing the limits of materiality and considers herself and her practice to be that of a scientist experimenting in a lab. She desires an understanding of how texture and form can evoke a psychological response. She seeks to create textiles so visceral they can almost be felt with the eyes. Sours investigates connections between the physical and psychological, considering how feelings, memories and words can be experienced through tactility, form and color.

www.katsours.co

Presented by Chimaera Gallery www.chimaeragallery.com

This event is presented in partnership with Da Vinci Art Alliance’s Everyday Futures Fest. DVAA’s month-long art and sustainability festival includes all-ages programming throughout Philadelphia for the month of April. For a complete list of events, please visit the www.EverydayFuturesFest.org website.

Suggested donation is $5/ticket.