Sculptor to lead workshop in Port Angeles on Nov. 1
Published 12:01 am Friday, October 24, 2014
PORT ANGELES — Internationally known sculptor Heidi Preuss Grew, whose artwork is on display at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, will teach a workshop there next Saturday, Nov. 1.
The class has space for just 10 artists and will run from 10:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the fine arts center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The fee is $95, and registration is available at 360-457-3532 and www.PAFAC.org.
Preuss Grew, who lives in Salem, Ore., will give a slide presentation about her work first.
Demonstration
Then she’ll take participants into the studio, where she will design and create a sculpture in porcelain, and discuss the medium and its history in the art world.
Preuss Grew also will demonstrate her hand-building techniques and tricks of the sculptor’s trade, including those used in the pieces at the fine arts center.
A professor at Willamette University, Preuss Grew has presented workshops and shown her work in Japan, Denmark, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania.
She is now an artist-in-residence at Sitka Center of Art and Ecology on the coast in Otis, Ore.
Preuss Grew’s Port Angeles Fine Arts Center show is called “Into the Wilderness” and will stay up through Nov. 2.
The indoor gallery at the center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays with free admission.
Webster’s Woods, the center’s 5-acre art park, is open daily from sunrise until sunset.
