Wheatpasting Demo and Film Screening

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photo courtesy of the Franklin Art Works

In Eric Baudelaire’s Sugar Water (currently on view), a billposter spends 72 minutes methodically wheat-pasting three images in a fictional Paris Metro station. Want to learn how to wheatpaste faster and closer to home? In this free workshop, Wes Winship and Mike Davis of acclaimed local print collective Burlesque of North America will demonstrate basic wheatpasting techniques, showing you how to use found paper objects and your own original artwork to create large scale collages and wall murals.

Burlesque of North America is a creative studio based in Northeast Minneapolis, focusing on graphic arts and screenprinting. Their work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Cotton Candy Machine gallery in Brooklyn NY, and the Merwin Gallery at Illinois-Wesleyan University. They have designed and screenprinted concert posters, album packaging, stage designs, and more for Arcade Fire, Minnesota Public Radio, Rhymesayers, Bonnaroo, Stones Throw Records, Doomtree, and many others.

Due to popular request, Franklin Art Works will also offer two timed screenings of Eric Baudelaire’s 72-minute video Sugar Water, so viewers can be sure to see the work from start to finish.  Enjoy the video with coffee and donuts.  Scheduled screenings will start at 1pm and 3pm and the workshop will be at 2pm.

Saturday, January 28, 2012
1pm
Franklin Art Works
1021 E. Franklin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Free