Workshop Description: Spend a day learning the basics of sculpting a human face — no experience needed. We’ll start simple, with the shapes and proportions that make a face look right, then build up the main features one at a time: eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. You’ll get plenty of hands-on practice time after each short demo, so by the end of the day you’ll have sculpted your own basic face study to take home.
This class is about building confidence with your hands and learning to really look at a face — how the parts relate to each other — rather than memorizing rules. Come ready to get a little messy and have fun.
What You’ll Learn
-How to rough in the basic shape of a head and face
-Simple tricks for getting proportions to look right
-How to sculpt eyes, a nose, a mouth, and ears that look believable
-How to use your tools
Artist Bio:
Kel Mur (she/they) grew up in New Jersey and graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Fine Art from Monmouth University in 2011, where she received the Creativity in Studio Art Award for her senior honors thesis, Commodity. After her undergraduate studies, she relocated to New Orleans to develop her studio practice before relocating to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue an MFA. Kel Mur has exhibited throughout the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast, showing work concerned primarily with the body exploring its various tribulations, including grief and the chronic subjugation of the femme-presenting form. Kel Mur has had artwork published in BARED: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts (La Femmes Folles, 2016), HOOT Online Magazine (November 2013, Issue 25), Sweetbitter by poet Stacey Balkun (Sundress Publications, 2022), and AJS Perspectives the Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Winter 2023). Kel Mur earned her MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Spring of 2020. She resides in Madison, WI, where she was recognized as one of the Madison Bridge Work Emerging Artists (2020-21) through the Arts + Literature Laboratory. She also nurtures a curatorial practice and is currently a preparator at the Chazen Museum of Art and a Lecturer at UW-Madison in Madison, WI.
