This workshop is full! Please contact kalmia@publicspaceone.com to join the waitlist.

Join visiting artist Masuda Yoriyasu for an introductory, contemporary lamp-making workshop using papers made by Iowa City artist and papermaker Nicholas Cladis.

The workshop is FREE, but space is limited to eight participants: Register by April 13.

(Feel free to also bring your own paper!)

This workshop is supported by the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Masuda Yoriyasu was born in 1956 in Japan. In 1979, he co-founded the Imadate Contemporary Paper Arts Exhibition (now called Imadate Art Field). In addition to a prolific exhibition history in Japan, Masuda spent many years living in Spain as part of a research and development team for public, sculptural wind-power turbines. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at Fukui Prefectural University, where he teaches fine arts in the context of the Echizen region’s craft culture. Masuda engages his local community in a myriad of ways, ranging from hosting and teaching public workshop sessions to acquiring antique, disused structures, which are then renewed and turned into exhibition spaces.