Plant to Paper Workshops; Papermaking with Artist Meg Heeres

This event is a drop in event to meet with Artist Meg Heeres as she explains the papermaking process and you can create large sheets of paper that will be used in a mural hung in the EIC.

The EIC will host a series of papermaking workshops in support from the University of Michigan Arts Initiative, Please read the details and dress appropriately for the variety of events. 

About Project

The Environmental Interpretive Center(EIC) at the University of Michigan- Dearborn and its stakeholders will collaborate with UM Dearborn students and faculty, area schools, and local artist Megan Heeres to create a site specific installation to be displayed at the Center. This installation will be created with handmade paper made from “invasive” or unwanted plants from the UM Dearborn/EIC property and will reflect the community of people working together to make the artwork. 

Bio

Megan Heeres’s art practice and professional endeavors have connected into a cooperative way of working with community both inside and outside of the studio. These collaborations engage with place, people, art and plants. She participates in projects locally in Detroit and nationally, most recently at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco and the Broad Art Lab at Michigan State University. Megan has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Michele Schara Residency, the Ragdale Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Women’s International Study Center. She is represented by Matéria Gallery in Detroit, Michigan and has works in many private collections.

She graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with a Master's of Fine Art in 2009 and from the Residential College at the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's of Art in 2002.

Website, social media accounts

• www.meganheeres.com
• Insta: @megheeres
• Facebook: @megheeres

This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan awarded to Jacob Napieralski's project title: Reimagining Environmental Stewardship through People, Plants, and Places.

Processing Paper Steps:

1. Plant Materials Collection

2. Process Plants to make Pulp

3. Papermaking