Potato Print Making June 18, 2010

Come explore your talents while we carve potatoes. We will be making all different kinds of designs / prints using our potato as a stamp.

Karen Hampton is a mixed media textile artist whose work is steeped in oral history and is an expression of the narrative. A storyteller at heart, she imparts conceptualized tales about the “other” in society. She views herself as a vehicle for ancestral voices to transcend history and remain as historical memory. The canvas of her work is a coarsely woven cloth that is aged and imbued with conceptualized images and text from a forgotten part of the American story. Hampton has been exhibited nationally since 1993 and most recently received the prestigious Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. Hampton received her MFA from University of California at Davis and is currently teaching at Howard University, Washington D.C.

Official Website: http://www.haywardrec.org