Come to BGC’s pop-up artist studio days to watch demonstrations by master napkin folder Joan Sallas (Saturday, February 18) and ethnobotanist and dye maker Arnold Clifford (Saturday, March 4). Learn by observing these experts at work and enhance your experience of Staging the Table and Shaped by the Loom! Included with purchase of an exhibition ticket.
Studio Visit: The Gentle Art of Napkin Folding
A demonstration by Joan Sallas
February 18, 2–4 pm
Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 4th floor
Virtuoso napkin folder Joan Sallas turns simple linen napkins into three-dimensional wonders. This demonstration brings to life the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuals featured in Staging the Table.
Free with gallery admission or when you book a curator tour.
Studio Visit: Making Dyes from Plants
A demonstration by Arnold Clifford
March 4, 2–4 pm
Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 4th floor
Many of the objects in Shaped by the Loom feature vivid colors made with natural dyes. Watch ethnobotanist Arnold Clifford make these dyes with plants from the Navajo Nation.
Free with gallery admission or when you book a curator tour.
