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| Three Mondays beginning July 7, 2008 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Multi-Cultural Folk Arts Workshop with artist Roshan Houshmand |
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In this educational and entertaining 3-day workshop, students will be replicating distinctive folk arts from three different cultures, creating Chinese Qin Dynasty figurines, Native American ‘buffalo hides’ and ‘Talking Rock’ necklaces, and Persian miniatures along with Oriental carpet designs. For ages 7 and up. $8 click here for the workshop registration form For further information Click Here Biography Painter Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian-American artist who has been exhibiting her work for over two decades in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Barcelona, Brussels and Copenhagen. She is a 2005 recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant and a 2006 grant recipient from the US Government for the NATO exhibition “21st Century American Women Artists.” Houshmand’s work is in private collections in Denmark, Spain, UK, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Costa Rica, and the United States. She has taught at Penn State University, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Winchester Graduate School of Art, La Massana in Barcelona and currently teaches at SUNY Delhi. |
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