Workshop: Archetype on a Stick

Workshop: Archetype on a Stick to the Throckmorton

* Saturday, June 3, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Workshop with Sha Sha

Masks give you an endless source of pleasure in their creation, theatrical imagery, and even as doll -like images to display. Learn to cast and mold, and recast multiple versions, and pose a theatrical image. Bring your imagination or imagine a face you would like like to mold.

Cast from a mold of Sha Sha’s Higby‘s masks, customize and sculpt it into your own. Mount your cast mask onto a stick, add wires to make structural form, sculpt, add texture, ornamental extensions or make your own spiritual catcher . Sha Sha will guide you through a myriad of techniques of embellishing that she uses in her costumes.

You can bring your mask to Sha Sha’s performance on June 24th.

Bring a small bag of colorful memorabilia, natural stick, and a bell or shaker, scissors and needle nose pliers. Wear loose comfortable clothing.

Sha Sha Higby pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years, then one year in Japan studying the art of Noh Mask and theater, then a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to study dance and shadow puppet making in the villages in Indonesia for five years at the Academy of Music and Dance, lacquer arts in Tokyo and Kyoto under the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.

An Indo-American Fellowship to study the textile arts of India, and a Pilot Travel Grants Fund from Arts International for Bhutan, the National Endowment for the Arts in Solo Theater Fellowship, U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, Theater Bay Area CASH, and the California Arts Council.