2025 09 A Hollow That Needs To Be Filled Workshop at Shake Rag Alley

 A Hollow That Needs To Be Filled

September 5-7, 2025

Shake Rag Alley, Mineral Point, WI

Schedule: 9am-4:30pm Fri-Sun and optional evening hours Fri-Sat

Option Open Studio: Monday, September 8, 2025

It is time again for me to lead another workshop at Shake Rag Alley. Here is the workshop description: "Our goal in this workshop is to fill the voids created by the objects we select to work with over three days. No matter what the source of the hollow or niche, we will consider what best fills the empty space that it contains. We will also work with layers, combining multiple hollows into a complex work of art. Participants can bring their own sources of hollows or niches from home but many samples will be provided to fill the weekend with opportunities. A hollow or niche can be anything with an empty space that needs to be filled. Some examples are reversed cradled boards, hollowed objects or bowls/cups. Virtually anything with some depth can make a mysterious story come to life as other objects, images or text are used to fill the voids. Feel free to bring from home any of the suggested niches in the student supply list. We will be mounting the niches on assembled substrates of our choice. Feel free to bring from home any of the suggested substrates in the student supply list. Gary will be teaching the basics of assemblage construction and mixed media techniques so that you will be able to create a work of art with a hollow as the central subject. Gary will be providing all the tools, mediums and lots of objects to help grow your art project. There will be time to share ideas and learn from fellow participants. Three days, free crap, cool art, and lots of fun."

At Shake Rag Alley I am lucky that my workshops are in the Lind Pavilion. We use one end for all the lectures, tools and junk storage. 

The goodies have to be covered before the workshop

to avoid the shark feeding frenzy when the participants become

Junk Drunk

Shake Rag has this great screen for PowerPoints

Each participant gets their own table in the other end of the pavilion

Every one works very hard for the three days of the workshop. There was also an optional Monday open studio.

Here are my great participants:

Anne

Barb

The Legend: Beth Hobby (Thanks, Beth, for being you!)

Beth

Chris

Christy (the Ambassador of Mineral Point)

Cris

Dara

Diane

GailForce

Jean

Karen

Karen "KRob"

Kathy F

Kathy E W

Photo by Denice

Mara

Pam

Pam has her hands on the piece Denice and I purchased for our collection

Steph

Theresa

On the table is my personal Best In Show work of art

Vicki

Photo by Jonna Wensel

Thanks to Shake Rag Alley and its great staff

Christina, Jonna and Mike

Thanks to Denice for all her help--I could not do this without her

and

Thanks to all the participants in A Hollow That Needs To Be Filled