Alice Helen Masek will share photos of her large scale papaercut works with a focus on the many different ways she did research to inform her images and details. Photos, stories shared, questions and answers will take about 45 minutes during which participants will have the option to experience cutting smaller scale pieces from her designs.
Later that evening, Masek will hold an in-depth, hands-on papercutting workshop at the Northfield United Methodist Church from 6:30-8:30 pm. No experience is necessary. Participants will try their hand at making a paper-cut butterfly (approximately 7 inches by 10 inches). Examples of the papercut butterflies participants will create are on display at the Church through June 29th. Participants are strongly encouraged to make a $5 donation to the Church to offset the cost of materials.
Alice Helen Masek, M.A. in Spirituality from Pacific School of Religion 1995, is based in Castro Valley, California, (San Francisco East Bay area) from which she has travelled seventeen years for a nationwide ecumenical ministry of group-cut large scale papercuttings with churches, religious orders, and social service organizations. Through her membership in the Guild of American Papercutters, she was invited to the Second International Festival of the Art of Papercutting in Huhhot, Inner Mongolia (a province of People’s Republic of China) in August of 2006, and her large art travelled with the Festival exhibit to cities in China, Taiwan, and Europe. She has created over 200 large designs which have homes from Hawaii to Eastern USA, and from as far north as Kotzebue, Alaska to as far south as Cuernavaca Mexico. Most recently (2015) she has offered a cutting session at University of California Santa Cruz and will do so again in August, with an exhibit of her work there in 2016.
