Paper Making Workshop

In con­nec­tion with her site-spe­cif­ic instal­la­tion ​“Monarch Migra­tions” in the spa­cious stair­well of Art­Crawl Harlem’s house in Colonels Row, artist Michele Brody will demon­strate and teach vis­it­ing par­tic­i­pants how to make paper from local­ly sourced milk­weed plants. This hands-on pro­gram will intro­duce par­tic­i­pants to the basics of mak­ing sheets of paper from nat­u­ral­ly for­aged mate­ri­als. The focus is on pro­vid­ing a cre­ative plat­form for Gov­er­nors Island vis­i­tors to learn more about Brody’s instal­la­tion, as well as the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment being man­aged by the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island’s Hor­ti­cul­ture team.

Par­tic­i­pants will expe­ri­ence the many stages of how to regen­er­ate milk­weed plants (the host plant for the Monarch But­ter­fly) into hand­made paper origa­mi but­ter­flies for her evolv­ing site-spe­cif­ic instal­la­tion high­light­ing the need for more nat­ur­al diver­si­ty in New York City.

Art­Crawl Harlem is one of the 2024 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.