Make art inspired by art on view at the museum! In this series of workshops for adults, meet and work with an artist as they guide you through activities inspired by Sharif Bey: Excavations.

Making Art From Art was developed in response to artist Sharif Bey’s question “Who gets to see themselves as an artist?” and encourages participants to engage with a variety of materials and techniques to create their own special work of art that they can take home.

Admission to the museum is not included with this program.

Workshops include:

January 20
Making Art from Art: Clay
with Emmanuelle Wambach 

February 10
Making Art from Art: Memory Water!
with Celeta Hickman 

About Emmanuelle Wambach:

Emmanuelle Wambach hails from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She grew up in a multicultural and multiracial family that valued art and creativity as essential.

Inspired by her mother’s love of flowers and gardening, Emmanuelle combines different techniques of texturing, carving, glazing and under glazing to create slab-built lace plates and one-of-a-kind decorative floral pieces. Since she was a small child, Emmanuelle learned about traditional women’s handicrafts and flowers from her mother. It wasn’t until adulthood that she realized how interested she was in these activities.

While her mother has a green thumb and the patience to create intricate fiber works, Emmanuelle’s thumb is brown, and she is all thumbs with involved fiber arts. By making ceramic flowers and lace forms in clay Emmanuelle has found her own way to create gardens and intricate textile textures while honoring the arts her mother taught her.

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