BIPOC Community
Mask-Making
October 17th-19th
Masks have long served as ceremonially significant objects in many cultures across every continent for embodying and working with spirits and archetypal energies. Immerse yourself in a three day workshop creating your own masks!
This Workshop Series experience is intended to be an affinity space for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). Thanks to a grant from Crafting the Future, and fiscal sponsorship with Soul & Soil Project, this workshop is available FREE for BIPOC participants!
Donations are always welcome as any spare funds allow CAB to continue doing the work we do 🖤
This Workshop is FULL
What We’ll Be Doing
Immerse yourself in a three day workshop facilitated by House of Arulu, guiding us through a hands-on process of making your own paper maché mask in an intimate, creative space!
Participants are encouraged to consider what they would like to make beforehand, but will also be given time to sketch and solidify a vision of the mask they will make over the course of the workshop. The process involves sculpting a clay mold, making a paper maché mask over the mold, and finishing with surface decoration.
All participants will be photographed by Jungle Branch with their finished masks at the end of the workshop.
Materials Included
All basic materials (clay, paper, glue, paint, brushes, etc) will be provided, but participants are invited to bring any materials for inspiration: (consider objects from nature, shells, silk flowers, cloth, beads, etc, & if you have your own clay tools, heat guns, painting tools, etc. please bring them!). We will conclude with wearing & embodying our masks to be witnessed by one another.
All artistic skill levels are welcome!
Prior painting & sculpting experience helpful but not required.
Arulu is a multimedia visual artist based in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She specializes in the sculpting of clay and paper-mache masks inspired by her elaborate dreams and the spiritual dimension of the natural world. Arulu’s interest in making masks originates in her study of the ancient ceremonial use of masks worldwide for healing, protection, and communication with spirits and ancestors.
About the Facilitating Artist
Portraits by Jungle Branch
CAB founder and photographer of Jungle Branch will be photographing the event as the workshop progresses, and also capturing portraits of everyone with their masks at the end of the weekend. We’ll also take a few group photos together the final portion of the workshop where we will share our masks with the group.
Click Here to Learn More about Jungle Branch
This three-day workshop will take place at Apocalypse Parlor; A space for people to share and witness creativity. Located roughly 20 minutes north of downtown Asheville.
At Apocalypse Parlor
11am - 6pm / Fri-Sun / Oct 17 - 19
Registration Required
Space is limited and we cannot reserve or guarantee your spot until after you have registered, responded to our email, and submitted your refundable deposit.
Learn more at the Registration page.