Luminaria: Designing with Light with Helen Hiebert (Online)

Schedule:  Dec 6, 2020 - 1pm - 4pm (ET);
10am - 1pm (PT); 11am - 2pm (MT); 12pm - 3pm (CT) ;
Register at least a week in advance so materials can be shipped to you. 

In the 1640’s, a German priest living in Rome developed the magic lantern, which cast shadows from glass slides onto a screen, a precursor to modern cinema. This shadow lantern works on the same principle: a light source inside casts the shadow from a stencil onto a paper screen. Illuminate the darkest days of the year as you design your own paper cuts (or use those that are provided) and construct a balsa wood framework. Create multiple panels and connect them with a flexible Japanese hinge that allows you to display the structure as a mini folding screen or a lantern.

Location/Venue:  Online with Maine Media Workshops + College
For more info & pictures:  https://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/item/1-day-luminaria-designing-with-light/
Cost/Fee:  $125
Material/Studio fee:  Included

Their workshop calendar:  https://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/book-arts-design/

Instructor and bio:  Helen Hiebert is a Colorado artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films, artists’ books and works in paper using handmade paper as her primary medium. She teaches, lectures and exhibits her work internationally and online, and is the author of the several how-to books about papermaking and papercrafts, including Paper Illuminated. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up-to-date on current paper trends, which she writes about in her weekly blog called The Sunday Paper.