2/22 Workshop: Loop Lab Pulp Possibilities
On February 22, 2026, students and staff joined Loop Lab Faculty Liaison and Project Coordinator Haley MacKeil for a hands-on workshop using materials from our new material circularity initiative, Loop Lab. Participants experimented with paper "clay", as well as pulps rehydrated from Loop Lab's paper "briquettes", and learned about a variety of applications and other novel materials being generated at Loop Lab.
About the artist: Haley MacKeil is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently working in Providence, RI. Her practice is informed by site research and slow, methodical processes that evidence a reciprocal exchange of self and site. To empathize with alternative, lived experiences, her work negotiates what is real or imagined, logical or emotional — where the natural world is embodied as something rhythmic, alive, and breathing. She has contributed to collaborative workshops, exhibitions, and printed editions with artists, project spaces, and institutions in Providence, Berlin, Boston, and New York. She is currently a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and Lecturer at the School for the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. MacKeil earned her BA in Visual Arts and Biology from Bowdoin College and MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.
