Simulacrum: Natural Object Workshop

Workshop – Simulacrum: Natural Object Workshop with Leigh Ann Beavers

With guidance and insight from naturalist-artist Leigh Ann Beavers, attendees will walk away from this workshop with a larger than life, mixed media 3D facsimile of a natural object created using observational drawing and paper engineering (gluing, folding, and manipulating paper to attain shape and definition). A wide variety of drawing media as well as watercolor will be used. This is a free workshop for adults, advance registration is required. Please call 540-362-6532 or <a href="mailto:wilsonmuseum@hollins.edu">wilsonmuseum@hollins.edu</a>.&nbsp;

Beavers is a printmaker/draughtsman living and working in Rockbridge County. Her work concerns itself with telling the partial truth; taking a thing apart, studying the parts and putting the parts back together, sometimes with an eye to accuracy and sometimes not. Her work is based firmly in the printmaking process, especially in regard to multiples, but also uses mixed media, collage, drawing and film. Most recently, her imagery originates from the flora of a small island off the west coast of Ireland.&nbsp;Beavers teaches printmaking and drawing at Washington and Lee University. She has a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in painting and printmaking and an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.