the FINE ART OF PAPER FLOWERS makerie
with tiffanie turner
workshop details
BASIC PAPER FLOWER MAKING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
DAY 1 : saturday, june 4
Early Afternoon:
Participants arrive at noon for check in and settling into the farmhouse. A community lunch will be served, allowing for everyone to get to know their surroundings and each other, Following lunch, we’ll make our way into the barn for the workshop orientation and introductions.
Late Afternoon:
We begin discussing the flow for the paper flower making, and dive right into the first flower. The afternoon will be spent in our first work session.
Evening:
We will share abundant delicious appetizers as our light dinner in the cozy farmhouse.
DAY 2 : SUNDAY, JUNE 5
Morning:
After a delicious breakfast, we will begin work session #2.
We will enjoy our lunch while we begin a community conversation around self-care, sharing what we’re trying, what’s working and what needs a bit of adjusting. It’s a wonderful opportunity to not only learn from each other, but to learn about one another in a different way.
Afternoon:
This afternoon brings us work session #3.
Evening:
After this Sunday afternoon session, relax, freshen up, and join us if you'd like at The New Woodshed next door for an optional group dinner.
DAY 3 : MONDAY, JUNE 6
Morning:
Departing by car to a nearby beautiful hike, we will be guided by Tiffanie's dear friend Michel Prause, a lifelong resident of the area. To-go coffee, tea, and fruit will be provided at the farmhouse before the hike, followed by breakfast and workshop session #4.
Afternoon:
After lunch, we will participate in a body movement session, stretching and nourishing our bodies in a gentle, physical way before we begin our last afternoon work session #5.
Evening:
This last evening is dedicated to individual work time, work session #6, with dinner being on your own to accommodate the rhythm of your projects.
DAY 4 : TUESDAY, JUNE 7
Morning:
After our last breakfast together, we will spend our last workshop session #7 completing our flowers and attaching leaves.
Working as a team, we will photograph our beautiful creations against the many rustic, beautiful surfaces the barn and farmhouse provide. This photo shoot is such a wonderful time to honor our hard work and the beauty we will have created, and provide a way to spread these special flowers out into the world.
Afternoon:
We will take a moment to put some closure on our retreat together. We will provide boxed lunches to enjoy on site or on your way out of town. Please note that guest rooms are available to you until 3:00 p.m.
Please note:
Daily schedules and workshop content are subject to small changes to accommodate our group's pace and progress. Tiffanie is always working on new flowers, and may choose to substitute one item in the program if she finds sharing a new flower would be beneficial.
TIFFANIE TURNER
papelsf.com
TIFFANIE TURNER was born in 1970 in Colonie, NY and raised in the woods of New Hampshire. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995 and worked as an architect for over 15 years before beginning her career as a botanical sculptor. She received a Zellerbach Family Grant award in 2016 to support her work as the May 2016 artist-in residence at the de Young Museum located in San Francisco, where she resided for over 20 years before moving to Marin County with her family in 2018.
Turner has had solo exhibitions at the Kimball Gallery at the de Young Museum, Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, MA, Rare Device in San Francisco, and Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions include “NSFW/Femme” at Spoke Art in San Francisco, CA, “Orchids: Attraction and Deception” at Barry Art Museum in Norfolk, VA, “Lush” at Hashimoto Contemporary in NYC, "Beyond the Bouquet" at Descanso Garden's Sturt Haaga Gallery in Southern California, "Flora" at the Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, FL, “Flower Power” at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, “Preternatural” at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, “Detritus” at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and “Botanica” at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. She has been featured in both The New York Times T Magazine and Book Review, Sunset Magazine, Vogue, American Craft Magazine, O Magazine, Phaidon Press’s “Flower”, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has been noted online by The New York Times T Magazine, Vice Creator's Project, Architectural Digest, Colossal, Gardens Illustrated, My Modern Met, Design*Sponge, Elie Saab, and The Jealous Curator, among others.
Turner is an instructor in the art of paper flower making in the United States and beyond, and her first book, The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, was released on Ten Speed Press in August 2017. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a botanical sculptor who depicts the appearance of different plants, mostly flowers, to some degree of accuracy, in paper, using both realism and preternaturally large, sometimes metastasized forms. My works in paper study scale, texture (petals sometimes reading like feathers, or fur) and color. I work with the rhythms and patterns found in nature, as well as the missteps and irregularities caused by decay, rot, wilt, dormancy, death, and genetic and viral mutations like phyllody, petalody and fasciation. I like to bring the smallest things we take for granted or that might go unnoticed, like the shape of the smallest floret of a flower, right to the viewer’s face, when one may realize they never knew it at all. I like to use the accessible association of botany to tell stories of the state of our environment, of the limits of our society's tolerance of fading beauty, of human vanity and of human compassion.
