Mixed-media artist Angi Cooper will demonstrate how to create nature-inspired sculptures from materials such as cardboard.
Registration is requested. There is no cost to participate and all supplies are provided.
Angi Cooper is the ARTx3 Campus's Arts in Education artist-in-residence for February 2025. Her residency and this workshop are made possible by the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts in Education program.
Angi Cooper was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design.
She is a professional mixed media artist and a practicing teaching artist in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Some of the workshops she has conducted with students include: printmaking, bookmaking, mask creation, drawing and painting techniques, zine design, paper sculpture, puppet construction, paper-cutting techniques, and mural design and construction.
Her work is part of private and public collections both in the United States and internationally. Part of her public art collection includes: a nature walkway mural approximately 265 feet long in Texarkana, Texas; student collaborative murals in Arkansas and Mississippi; interior mural in the Kroger store café in Hernando, Mississippi; a triptych panel mural at Germantown Community Library in Germantown, Tennessee; a California sea lion painting for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; a temporary installation of 1,000 origami cranes at the Children’s Museum of Memphis and the MAX Museum in Meridian, Mississippi.
National and regional publications in which she has appeared include: Cat Fancy Magazine, The Commercial Appeal, DeSoto Magazine, The Animal Times, The Pet Gazette, Writers on the River, Grandmother Earth VII, and the 7DV7 exhibition catalog.
Angi is also a hiker and amateur birder. She enjoys exploring trails in state and national park systems, always has her camera and binoculars in her backpack, and has started a series of zines based on the birds from her life list. One of her favorite songbirds is the wood thrush. She describes it as “poetry personified.”
Visit her website angicooper.com, and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
