Artist/Instructors: Stacy Hubbard and Kathy Shiroki
Saturday’s: February 1, 15, 22, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Fee: $75 members/$105 not-yet members (included all 3 workshops)

Artists, art lovers, and writers are all welcome.

The Everyday workshop series is about embracing art as a daily practice of self-expression and social connection. Stacy, who is passionate about words, and Kathy, who is engaged with the visual arts, are collaborating to help you make art to share with your community. Participants will experiment with creative small-scale creations, journal-keeping, text-image combinations, and social networking through gifting.

Session 1: We’ll begin by examining selections from Charles Burchfield’s journals and considering the relation of his writings to his paintings. Then we’ll make a few small works of our own (drawings, paintings, or collages) that combine text and image with the purpose of giving these to others.

Session 2: We’ll experiment with painting, collaging, and drawing inspired by bits of poetry or other writings (borrowed or created).

Session 3:  We’ll continue exploring daily artmaking of various kinds as a discipline and an act of connecting with others.

Supply List:
If you have your own painting supplies, photographs, patterned bits of paper for collaging, please bring these. The museum will provide small pieces of paper to create on, additional painting, drawing, and collage supplies.

Stacy Hubbard

Stacy Hubbard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Buffalo and a scholar of American transcendentalism and modern poetry. She is also a watercolor learner who creates small daily paintings as a spur to creativity and as accompaniment to poems and other writings. She likes to send her paintings in the mail to friends and family, using artmaking to strengthen connections.

Kathy Shiroki

Kathy Shiroki is a Museum Educator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and Adjunct faculty at SUNY Buffalo State. She is interested in the conversation between text and image, the creator and receiver, and the act of giving. She likes to create small works on her dining room table that become everyday souvenirs.

For further information please contact Kathy Gaye Shiroki at: shirokkg@buffalostate.edu