Sculpting with Angi Cooper (FREE WORKSHOP)

 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 19
The Arts & Science Center, 701 S. Main St. in Pine Bluff
 FREE
 Ages: All

Mixed-media artist Angi Cooper will demonstrate how to create nature-inspired sculptures from materials such as cardboard.

Angi 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.

Registration is requested. Register at artx3.org/all-events/sculpting-with-angi-cooper or call 870-536-3375.

There is no cost to participate and all supplies are provided.

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About Angi Cooper
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.

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.”