Found Plastic Block Printing with Studio Resident Dahn Gim

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May 14, 2019, 12:00 pm to 2:00 PM
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Camera Obscura Art Lab
1450 Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90401

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Saturday 5/11 or Tuesday 5/14, 12 – 2pm
Cost: $5 each workshop
To register, click on the link or call 310-458-2239.
Practice printmaking on fabric with upcycled materials! Make simple repeating patterns using plastics collected from the ocean by Dahn as part of her ongoing project at the Camera. Bring t-shirts, tote bags, or other fabric you’d like to block print with unique patterns. Some fabric scraps available; equipment and ink provided. Bring an apron and/or clothes you don’t mind getting stained, gloves are available.
For her residency project, she collecting, archiving and transforming plastics from Santa Monica Beach into a series of sculptures, keeping this abundant material out of the waste stream and highlighting both the problem of “forever waste” and the overlooked utility of plastic as a resource. She is working onsite at the Camera Obscura 4/20 to 7/17/19.