Join Joanne Wasti in making your own Halloween masks using folded paper sculpture techniques.

Kids and parents will make masks for themselves using folded paper sculpture techniques. Depending on the age of the participants, Joanne will teach them how to cut, score and fold paper to make 3D masks. You'll also add found objects like yarn, ribbon and buttons to decorate the masks.

A note from Joanne: If the kids are much younger (preschool age), I can have mask templates for them to decorate and they won’t have to do the folding part. In addition, these were made to hang on the wall but we can make them with the eye holes cut out and bands on the back so they can wear them.

About Joanne Wasti

Joanne has been an art educator for the past twenty years, both in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s a graduate of RISD and has advanced degrees in art history, art education and gifted education. She started her career as a museum educator and, subsequently, studio manager at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. She’s been a teaching artist in New York City and San Jose and taught classes at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. She was a founding teacher at the Yorkville Community School in Manhattan where she taught visual art for ten years.

Her passion is teaching people of all ages to be creative. She finds this is best done by offering students a safe space to find their own voice, while at the same time teaching technique. She encourages her students to make choices and break rules and is always pleasantly surprised by what’s produced in her classes. Her love of art history means that almost every lesson is inspired by a historic precedent or influential artist—and many of those artists are young and contemporary.

She has tirelessly worked to promote access to the arts for all children, and their families, through the design of museum and classroom curriculum, as well as the planning and facilitation of community building workshops.

She is now a full-time resident of Kent, CT where she lives in a 1850s farmhouse with her husband, anxious dog and aloof cat. She is enjoying a new life surrounded by natural beauty and wildlife, and where running, hiking, skiing and biking are right outside the front door.

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