Helen Hiebert: Half-Day Hosted Studio Session

Workshop Description

Have you ever wanted half of a day during the conference to work at your own pace, relax, and embellish your previous day’s workshop creations? Or wanted some low-stress time to get input from an instructor (or your peers) on a project you’re working on? Join this Half-Day Hosted Studio Session for just $55, and enjoy a dedicated space to work alongside other like-minded attendees at your leisure. Then, spend the other half of the day exploring Monmouth, taking the trolley to Independence to visit the shops and galleries, visiting one of the local wineries, or joining the non-hosted open studio session after lunch.

For this session with Helen Hiebert, you will be able to sign up via email for a 15- to 20-minute private consultation. The exact time will be assigned by Helen after she receives the final participant list (maximum of 10 people in this session). Your host may bring out examples of her work you can look at, reference books to flip through, or work on one of her own projects alongside you. Think of this as a library-style workspace, with quiet conversations allowed.

These studio sessions will be in the Richard Woodcock Education Center, Room 201—a beautiful room with vaulted ceilings and lots of natural light. There will be convenient access to our conference hub, which includes FOBA’s info desk, the raffle and auction tables, the faculty staff exhibit, the challenge book displays, and the trade show.

Materials/Equipment to be Provided by Students

• Whatever project you would like assistance with or input on

Instructor Biography

Helen Hiebert is a Colorado artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films, artist’s books, and works in paper using handmade paper as her primary medium. She teaches, lectures, and exhibits her work internationally and online, and is the author of several how-to books about papermaking and papercrafts; her latest book is Weaving With Paper. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up to date on current paper trends, which she writes about in her weekly blog called The Sunday Paper. She interviews papermakers and paper artists on her podcast Paper Talk, and she holds an annual paper retreat and papermaking master classes in her Red Cliff studio.

Instagram: @helenhiebert