Event Details:
To celebrate Earth Day, Garbage as Medium: Recycled Papermaking invites participants to transform everyday refuse into something new. Led by Bailey Scieszka (MFA '26), this hands-on workshop guides participants through the process of making recycled paper—from blending paper scraps with water to create pulp, to dipping screens into the mixture and couching the newly formed sheets with fabric.
By the end of the workshop, participants will create a one-of-a-kind piece of handmade paper to take home, demonstrating how discarded materials can be reimagined as creative mediums.
Bailey Scieszka is a performance artist from Detroit working across drawing, painting, puppet dramas, and video. Drawing on the queer art of failure, he reimagines American history through a rotating cast of personas animated by folly. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in New York and was awarded the Benjamin Menschel Grant. He has exhibited with Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta), MOCAD (Detroit), White Columns (New York), What Pipeline (Detroit), and Maria Bernheim (Zürich and London). His puppet dramas have been performed at Paris Internationale, EMPAC, and NADA New York. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times, Mousse, Cura, The Whitney Review, and Cultured. Scieszka is currently an MFA candidate in Art Practice at Stanford University.