Fritz Horstman - Burnable Sculpture Workshop

Burnable Sculpture Workshop
Saturday, June 22 @ 6:30pm followed by pizza dinner
8:30pm, sculpture burn

Join sculptor Fritz Horstman to build burnable sculptures of wood, paper, and other non-toxic burnable materials. Beginning with simple armatures, no previous experience is required. This free workshop will begin at 6:30 and will include a pizza dinner. A bonfire will be lit at 8:30 in which the sculptures can be (but aren't required to be) burned. Hand tools and materials will be provided, and you are encouraged to bring some of your own.

At the 8:30pm burn, Fritz will also burn his sculpture U-Shaped Loom, currently on view on the grounds. Please join us for this special nighttime happening!

For questions or accommodations, please contact Artistic Director, Sayward Schoonmaker, via email: sayward@sqhap.org

About the artist:

Fritz Horstman is an artist, educator, and curator based in Bethany, CT. He received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and his BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH. Horstman has shown his sculptures, drawings, and prints in recent solo and group exhibitions across the US and Europe. He has upcoming solo shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT; Municipal Bonds in San Francisco; and Planthouse Gallery in Manhattan. Recent curatorial projects include Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX; Becoming Trees at Concord Art in Concord, MA; and Water Access at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT. Recent awards and residencies include the Connecticut Art Fellowship; Bauhaus Dessau Artist-in-Residence; the Arctic Circle Residency; and Shiro Oni Residency, Ohishi, Japan. Horstman is Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He has lectured and given workshops at Yale University, Harvard University, l'École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, The Royal Academy of Art in London, and many other institutions. He is author of Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers's Color Experiments, published by Yale University Press in 2024. A monograph of Horstman's Folded Cyanotypes will be published in the fall of 2024.