Boxes, Bits + Pieces
Session 2 | June 22–July 4
Trinity Incense Burner by Stephen Yusko, 2019-2020. Forged, forge-welded, and fabricated steel, 3” x 4 ½” x 1 ½”.
Participants in this workshop will create objects that balance the industrial history of steel with a gracefulness of form. Building on a solid base of fundamental forging, forming, and fabricating techniques, participants will expand their visual vocabulary through creative problem solving and by exploring inventive uses of material to create vessels made to contain tangible items (favorite objects, etc.), as well as intangibles (ideas, thoughts, actions, etc.). All levels welcome.
Stephen Yusko (he/him) creates sculpture, furniture, vessels, and jewelry in his Cleveland, OH studio using mixed material combined with forged, machined, and fabricated steel. Yusko has taught at several schools and universities, including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Penland School of Crafts (NC), and SUNY Purchase. He has exhibited his work widely including at the Metal Museum (TN) and the Ruthin Craft Centre (Wales, UK), and has received four Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards.