Take a much-needed holiday and immerse yourself in daily art workshops! The Holiday Term is a new series of workshops in an array of mediums designed to sharpen your practice or introduce you to new methods and techniques.

Papercutting is an ancient art dating back to the creation of paper during the 1st century in China. Since that time, artisans have used paper, scissors and knives to create objects both ornamental and functional. In this workshop, we will be making a variety of cards for both the holiday (Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa) and everyday. Templates will be provided.

What will you learn in this workshop?

1. Learning how to use an Xacto knife to cut a design
2. Using color papers to provide background contrasts
3. Negative and positive space and understand what gets cut out and what stays in.
4. History of papercutting around the world