Celebrate being outside immersed in the beauty of nature while we make unique personal creations together. Join Nevada Humanities and artist Zoe Bray as we meet outdoors to enjoy the beauty of autumn in northern Nevada. We will meet to gather leaves, twigs, fruit, seeds, and earth to make unique personal designs. Participants will learn how to work with natural and upcycled materials to create their own framed pictures. We will make organically homemade glue to paste our gathered materials on upcycled cardboard frames. This workshop is family-friendly and open to all skill levels.
Recommended Supplies
Some materials will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring natural objects and materials as well.
Additional Information
Some materials will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring natural objects and materials as well. Please plan accordingly and wear weather-appropriate clothing. We recognize that attendees may have varying degrees of comfort in group settings. Masks are optional but very welcome.
Free parking is located right behind the Planetarium in the West Stadium Parking Garage off of North Virginia Street at 16th (by the NV Historical Society). The 16th Street entrance leads right into the 3rd floor parking.
About Zoe Bray
Zoe Bray is a fine art painter and eco-artist. Her practice focuses on painting and drawing from nature, using traditional fine art techniques and experimenting with unconventional approaches. Her work explores the boundaries between art and ethnography, engaging in questions of identity, representation, and human connection with nature. Zoe trained as a painter in Italy and Spain and holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and an MA from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Zoe's love of art and nature has brought her to offer live painting performances and workshops in a variety of places, including the American Natural History Museum in New York and the YMCA in Jerusalem. She considers both Nevada and her native Basque Country her home.
A special thank you to the Fleischmann Planetarium & Science Center for their support of this program.