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Marking Memories: Reflecting on Loss with Squire AIR Joan Giroux
October 6, 2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
$70
Clamshell box making workshop with Squire AIR Joan Giroux and Lisa Marie Kaftori
Throughout our lives we experience moments of loss, reflection, and critical
moments of change. In this workshop, you are invited to create a memory box to hold small objects, texts, and ephemera that harbor personal significance to you, your history, or your environment. Alongside the boxes, we will make small paper and clay items as memory objects to support the sharing of your thoughts, stories, and experiences. Participants will create images on sheets of paper that will in turn be used to cover and assemble a small hand-held clamshell box. Some elements of the clam shell boxes will be prepared in advance.
After assembling the memory boxes, we will discuss and explore ways handwritten text and assembled ephemera can capture elusive memories and introspection, creating small 4 x 6 single signature books and using 
air-dry clay to make imprints to be stored in the memory boxes. Each participant will leave the workshop with a small clamshell box, a single signature book, and clay object.
No experience is necessary.
Please bring any small objects, memorabilia, or photographs that can become part of your memory box.
Emma Serr is an artist and a student studying Studio Art at SBCC. Emma has a background in art and customer service, having worked as a camp counselor at sewing camp and assistant for sewing events and classes, and display manager and cashier in previous positions, and was recently a nanny to several young children. Emma first found us as a customer who loved what Art From Scrap represents!
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent her last four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife. Veronica is very passionate about conservation and sustainable agricultural practices. Veronica has spent many summers working in environmental education at various zoos and museums and loves introducing kids to the plants and animals that coexist with us. In her free time, she likes to sit at the beach and read, take dance classes, roller skate, and walk around fancy neighborhoods to look at the houses.
Lu’s love of all things Earth began at James Madison University in Virginia, where they got their Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Lu has a Master’s degree in Spatial Ecology- the study of how creatures interact across landscapes- from East Carolina University, where they studied rock pools along a river and the critters that dwell in them. Lu is thrilled to be teaching budding scientists about the Earth and why it’s important for us to protect and preserve the environment. 
Lydia
Jenny joined Explore Ecology first as an Environmental Educator, then as a Program Coordinator, and most recently moved into the newly created Programs, People & Culture position. Prior to Explore Ecology Jenny worked in science research and consulting, however her passion has always been science education and outreach. Jenny loves all things related to the ocean, especially free diving, and enjoying the beauty and wonder that is the underwater world. Her greatest life passion is traveling, which she hopes to do more of again soon.
Ian Docktor
MELISSA BROOKS
Lindsay Johnson
