Corn. That bounteous crop. We grill it. Create corn mazes out of it. Feed it to our animals. And Saturday, we can use corn to make art.
Fiber artist and weaver Beth Preston will be the guest artist showing kids of all ages how to create art and make baskets or holiday decorations with corn husks and other natural materials during the Corn Husk Art event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Imagine Children’s Museum, 1502 Wall St., Everett.
“We’ll have the corn husks and we’ll have all sorts of other stuff out like yarn and string and wire and, oh my gosh, a lot of different material, and they can just make whatever they want,” said artist Raniere, the museum’s creative arts manager, who prefers to go by just her first name.
Because Preston is part of the museum’s guest artist series, she will also bring along a few pieces of her art work to display and will also be building her own piece work while the kids — and adults—are creating theirs, Raniere said.
Preston does baskets and other fiber pieces made from all natural materials, such as shells, pine needles, sea grass, willow and other flexible vines, kelp, philodendron leaf, palm, silk and waxed linen thread.
Last year Imagine Museum held a similar holiday art event and participants made dolls, holiday decorations and even corn-husk fish, Raniere said.
“She’ll be there sort of helping with showing people how to weave and put things together,” Raniere said. “It’s very open-ended and they’ll be so many materials that it will appeal to all ages both young and old.”
Preston is currently showing her baskets and such at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery. She uses traditional basketry techniques such as coiling and twining. She recently moved to Washington from California where she spent 20 years in adult education teaching folk guitar and basketry classes, according to her bio on the Web.
The Corn Husk Art event is free with admission. General admission to the museum is $7 with children 12 months and under free. For more information call 425-258-1006 or visit their Web site at www.ImagineCM.org.
Reporter Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424 or goffredo@heraldnet.com
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