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In this workshop, you will create a tangible, unique artwork -- a reminder of or connection to a place using materials from that location. It can be your own yard or garden, a favorite spot, a place you have visited on vacation, or somewhere else! After a brief history of artists using botanicals as part of their artwork for context, participants will learn how to collect and press botanicals using Botanical Specimen Guidelines and then create quilt squares using pre-pressed botanical materials.

Materials will be provided.

Jody Graff is a multimedia visual artist living and working in Philadelphia and an Associate Professor in the Graphic Design program in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. Her passion for using the power of design to celebrate and elevate the human condition comes through in fine art, in client graphic design work and in the classroom. She enjoys exploring projects at every scale (miniature, life-size and monumental). She also has a keen interest in environmental issues, a science nerd’s love of insects, leaves and trees and an insatiable curiosity. Her hope is that her work will encourage viewers to see and consider the natural world in a new way.

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