Experience paper making with natural materials and colorants. In this workshop, you’ll create handmade paper with fibers from the South Carolina fields, farm communities, and personal inclusions. While making paper you’ll be introduced to crops, like colored cotton, southern indigo grown by the instructor as well as food crops that produce wonderful fibrous materials for textural inclusions and beautiful paper surface design. Once the papers dry you’ll explore dip dyeing and painting with southern indigo and other accessible natural dye colorants and pigments. Learn about sealants for making your paper usable with your personal art-making. Leave the workshop with the knowledge to make paper at home and a sampler of handmade papers created with natural fibers.

All Supplies Included
$225

Two Day Papermaking Practicum: NC Paper

Book and paper lovers alike will enjoy this immersion of creative processes. Day One: Expect a hands on sheet making journey with local plant fibers from the CAM, the coast and surrounding counties in North Carolina. Learn how to identify and harvest plants for hand papermaking. Learn how to process, pulp, press, create sheets and dry textured papers, learn to create formation aids, the vocabulary - learn processes that can be recreated at home with simple equipment. Expect to learn about inclusions, overlays, natural dyes and have access to natural dye vats including indigo grown by the instructor. Build a supply of paper for printing, drawing, writing and book arts or create imagery using fresh pulp and creative techniques. Day one involves cooking down plant ingredients, pounding fibers to make pulps and mixing pulps with ingredients to pull and couch beautiful sheets of paper using the mould and deckle and deckle box. Day Two: The sheet making process continues with plant fibers and an added twist! Let's start the New Year by pulping those blue Covid masks and recycling them into paper as we look ahead to healthier and happier days.

Adult: All Levels -
Friday & Saturday, March 25-26, 10am - 4pm Pancoe
CAM member: $171; Non-member: $190
+ $20 material fee

Paintings, Papers, Prints, Cloth, Threads, Covers and Books

A Surface Design Journey for Assembling Handmade Artist Books - Spend the day with an NC Interdisciplinary Artist learning about how she creates while she shares demos and provides touching examples. Feel free to bring in works you may have for sharing with others. Get your questions answered as you journey around the Pancoe engaging with hands on centers to create paste papers, cyanotypes, Lino prints, texture rubbings, natural dye pigments for dyeing (including indigo from the instructors garden) and painting (watercolor, oils and more). Select fabrics and papers, including a Center to pull a few sheets of handmade paper. Expect to find a center for paper marbling, rusting, aging, tearing, cutting, stitching, stamping, bookbinding tools, glue making, uplifting quotes and inspiration for working at home. Learn to work with mica. Find and create papers for collage works. Play with image transfer. Find a paper cutter for cutting paper and book boards with plenty of room to spread out. Learn about assemblage with fabric, plaster, paper, wood and clay book covers along with recycled paper pulp covers and fabric covered book boards. If you enjoy the process of making handmade artist books and paper surface design or are wanting to have fun learning you will find yourself in your element for two days of creating like never before. If this doesn't sound like fun I don't know what does. I hope you will join us in Pancoe. I can't think of a better place I would like to share creatively for this workshop than in the studio of Pancoe at CAM. Expect to view a vast variety of handmade books, bookbindings and papers created by the instructor.

Adult: All Levels -
Saturday & Sunday, February 26-27, 10am -4pm Pancoe
CAM member: $171; Non-member: $190

FIBERS AND COLORS FROM THE FIELD: BOOK, PAPER, FABRIC
Session Two - June 12-18, 2022

I am happy to offer these fall online classes with the Frederick Book Arts Center:

Exploration with Marbling, September 10th & 17th, 2021, 6:30-8:30pm
The Printed Story, September 13th, 20th & 27th, 2021, 6:30-8:30pm
Paper Surface Techniques, November 2nd, 9th & 16th, 2021, 6:00-8:00pm

VISITING ARTIST: PAPERMAKING, LOCAL FIBERS AND NATURAL DYES
Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC
October 7, 2021 - Gathering raw materials at Old Salem and Bethabara
October 8-9, 2021, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm PAPERMAKING

NATURE AND THE PRINT
October 25-31, 2021
Redux Contemporary Art Center at WildAcres, Little Switzerland, NC

Three part virtual Indigo Series funding for reduced tuition fees by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Indigo in the Garden, Saturday, June 19, 2021, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Dyeing with Natural Indigo, Saturday, July 24, 10:00 am to 12:00pm

Harvesting and Extracting Indigo, Saturday, August 28, 2021, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Now you can join me for classes and workshops from your home, office or when you might be traveling.

With most in person workshops postponed until 2021 and 2022 due to the complications of the COVID 19 Pandemic I have decided to offer some programs online.

Thank you for checking the Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 offerings and registration details out on Instagram @classesandworkshops and on the web site www.catherinecrosstsintzosclassesandworkshops.com

GROUNDED: A Journey with Color and Texture
WORKSHOP COMPLETED
Two day workshop, March 6, and 7, 2020

GROUNDED COMMUNITY: Exploring Color, Texture, Fiber in Books
Community Event, March 8, 2020, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

STITCH IN: Join this FREE afternoon Community offering to make your mark with the thread and needle on a cloth panel for the 25 Million Stitches Project. All supplies provided. Each stitch represents a refugee. NOTE: Scroll below to find more information about the 25 Million Stitches Project.

CLOTH AND THREAD ABSTRACTIONS
One day workshop, March 28, 2020 - Postponed/Reschedule date pending due to COVID 19 Virus is America.

DEEPER INTO THE BLUE
Two day workshop - April 18, and 19, 2020 - Postponed/Reschedule date pending due to COVID 19 Virus is America. This workshop is part of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to Florence County Museum for the expansion of Indigo and southern crops educational programs.

REDUX ART RETREAT AT WILDACRES:
POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC.

Wildacres Retreat
Little Switzerland, NC

NATURE AND THE PRINT
October 12-18, 2020

FIBERS AND COLORS FROM THE FIELDS: BOOK, PAPER, FABRIC
June 14-20, 2020 RESCHEDULED TO 2022.

INTENSIVE: AN IMMERSION WITH INDIGO
Two day workshop, June 6-7, 2020 - POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC.

Join Catherine at a STITCH IN to help create ten panels for the 25 Million Stitches Project. ALL STITCH IN EVENTS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19. TO SUBMIT A PATCH FOR ONE OF THE PANELS SEND A MESSAGE FOR DETAILS. ALL PATCHES DUE BY APRIL 20. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HAS PARTICIPATED IN PERSON OR WHO HAS MAILED A PATCH.

All supplies are included and participation is FREE. Catherine has scheduled STITCH IN opportunities in NC, SC, GA and FL. Check back here for dates and locations during March and early April 2020.

The link here will take you to the next upcoming scheduled STITCH IN.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2020, CAMERON ART MUSEUM, WILMINGTON, NC, 3-5 PM. Click link above and go to Workshops on the Cameron Art Museum web site.

SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2020, RENSING CENTER, PICKENS, SC, 2-5 PM

FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020, SULFUR STUDIOS, SAVANNAH, GA, FIRST FRIDAY, 6-9 pm

25 MILLION STITCHES – ONE STITCH FOR EACH OF THE WORLD’S 25 MILLION REFUGEES

The world is in flight. 25 million people* across the globe have been forced to flee their homelands as a consequence of genocide, war, poverty, natural disasters, targeted violence, and other grave threats. They leave behind everything they’ve known and possessed in order to live; they face immense struggles, misfortunes, and perils on their journey; and, through it all, survival, much less successful resettlement, remains but the slimmest hope.

Please join this project to hand-stitch 25 million stitches: one stitch for each refugee. How does making 25 million stitches help refugees? We believe that this project is a way for us to engage with this global crisis instead of ignoring it. And even though no single stitch can fully represent an individual, the act of stitching and the resulting work will help bring attention to the scale of the crisis. Two objectives of the project are:

To engage as many people as possible to raise awareness of the global refugee crisis and To amass 25 million stitches to visually represent the sheer volume of this astronomical figure of refugees.

This is a community art installation now with over 1,400 participants from 44 states and many countries overseas. However, another 1,000 panels will be needed to be stitched to add up to 25 million stitches. This huge community art project will come together into a single striking fiber arts display.

The first full installation of panels created by participants from all over the world will be at the:
Verge Center for the Arts
625 S Street
Sacramento, CA
June 5–August 15, 2020
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 5–7pm

Instructor: Summer and Fall 2023