Garden Inspirations: Floral Shapes in Glass and Fiber

Join Community Creative Stephanie Tayengco for an intimate look at what’s in bloom in the cutting garden at Bloedel Reserve, an area seldom seen by visitors. You’ll use your observations and impressions of riotous colors and shapes that coevolved with their pollinators as inspiration to make your own wearable multimedia sculptures. We’ll learn to needle felt into glass forms that will be provided, resulting in personal mementos reflecting your unique experiences of the garden in naturalistic and fantasy forms. There will be time to complete one piece in class and leave with a new craft to continue exploring and materials to create a second piece on your own.

WHERE
Meet in the Arrival Garden

WHEN
August 1, 9:30 – 12:45 PM

COST
$44 for Members
$70 for Non-Members (Includes admission)

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Stephanie Tayengco is a glass artist who works borosilicate with a torch to make sculptural forms. As the artist behind Studio Salamin, she creates sculpture and digital interactive art that reflects and changes how you perceive, playing with all three meanings of the Tagalog word salamin, glass the material, mirror, and eyeglasses. Her most recent obsession is exploring art as time compression, overlapping moments into a single space, capturing ghostly hints of what’s been forgotten, overlooked, or displaced.

While working in technology after years of studying art history, Stephanie found she could merge her passions at a neon and physical computing class at Urban Glass in Brooklyn. She continued taking classes in torchworking there and at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. Now you can find her in front of a torch at BARN on Bainbridge Island and follow her at studiosalamin.com and on Instagram @studiosalamin.