Last week, at our monthly gathering at the South Beach Community Center, Liz Fox and Beth Kattleman guided us through the art of sgraffito, an Italian word meaning “to scratch,” a centuries-old pottery decorating technique that produces stunning results through a surprisingly meditative process. Sgraffito works by applying a layer of colored slip to leather-hard […]
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Last night at our monthly gathering, members of the Emerald Curtain Collective came together for an engaging workshop in linocut stamp-carving, taught by a local artist and founding member of ECC, Elizabeth Fox. We learned how artists begin by sketching a design, transfer it in mirror-image to a linoleum block, then carve away the negative
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My desire to connect and communicate drives my art and the concern I feel for our planet draws me to be part of the Emerald Curtain Collective. I enjoy sculpting masks of key species that help educate others about our unique ecosystems. I’ve lived on the Oregon coast for most of my life and navigated
