10/16 Lunch + Learn: May Babcock
Join us for a Lunch + Learn with local artist May Babcock! Food and refreshments will be provided.
Interested? Register here! Note registration is encouraged but not required to attend.
About the event: May Babcock's artwork uses foraged plant fibers for papermaking to engage with both the materiality of place and discovery of multiracial identity. In this talk, the artist will take a deep dive into how we collectively talk about so-called "invasive" plants, her unique processes using local fibers, and an ecocentric way of working.
About the artist: May Babcock (she/her) is an ecocentric artist who transforms sediment, seaweed, and excess plants into handmade paper. Rooted in hand papermaking and place, her interdisciplinary practice reconnects people to the voice of the land and waters. Babcock exhibits nationally and internationally, including the Boston Athenaeum, RISD Museum of Art, New Bedford Whaling Museum, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Babcock has installed public art at Brown University, Illinois State Museum, Rhode Island State House, and T.F. Green International Airport, and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She founded Paperslurry.com, a hand papermaking blog.
