Make Your Own Wooden RolyPoly

This is a free workshop as part of the bi-annual Moab Arts Reuse Residency. This workshop is limited to 10 participants.

Use coping saws to make your own 3D wooden 'ball' from a flat piece of wood. It will all go togehter like a puzzle in the end to make a ball that even rolls!

Anneloes van Beek joins the Reuse Residency with a focus on woodworking, creating functional and decorative pieces. Van Beek was trained as a jeweler at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and it was here that she fell in love with woodworking. She is fascinated by the planning, puzzle-like material, and necessary patience of woodworking. For the last six years, her work has been centered around a series of wall sculptures made by laminating reclaimed wood, carving it into organic forms, and applying reclaimed linoleum ‘shingles’ with small nails and adding colored tiles as pixels.

Something that caught her eye about Moab is its Tree City designation, which the city has held since 1993. When Anneloes sees a plank of wood, she sees a lifetime of stories, twists and bows from years of wind, knots of sapling roots, rings showing years of growth, and then the human marks made on the wood. What was built with it? Was it painted? Does it have to be left to burn or rot when it could be made into something else and live yet another life? Anneloes plans to create a series of reliquary boxes made from reclaimed wood from the landfill. The boxes are a testament to the wood’s origin story and she plans to accompany each one with its own origin story. She hopes that the boxes inspire curiosity in the source of wooden objects in our lives and reconsider what types of wood crafted items we purchase and throw away.

Registration is required.