Hello! Welcome back to my infrequent and sporadic mailings! I'm mostly writing because I wanted to let you know about a workshop I'll be offering in August. This one is an IRL event, so it's for our Bay Area friends, but I'm hoping to get some online ones going later this year too. Scroll down to see some new work too!

✨New Workshop!✨

Paper Potluck: Intro to Paper Art

Saturday, August 12, 2023
10:00AM–1:00PM
Kala Art Institute Community Classroom in Berkeley, CA (map)
$95 class fee +
$5–10 materials fee due at class (exact price TBD! This fee reimburses me for the paper I buy)

Let's make paper food together! I'm excited to offer a class on basic paper cutting/folding/forming skills while making paper food with you. See all of the details and register at the link below:

→ Register here!

There are just about a dozen spots open, and I'm sharing here before hopping over to Instagram to announce the workshop this afternoon. I hope that you'll join! I'd like to teach more this year (perhaps even a longer form course on tactile illustration??), so if there's anything you'd love to learn or place you think would be a great fit, please let me know!

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✨Recent Work✨

Mother's Day Animation for SFMOMA

Remember when my friend Andria Lo and I made images of paper cakes that were in homage to the painter, Wayne Thiebaud last year? Well, this year, SFMOMA (!!) reached out to commission images and animations in a similar style for Mother's Day, and I was able to work with Andria on them! The two cakes are based off of the museum's distinctive architecture. I have to say, figuring out a paper cream dollop that would sit evenly on the slanted surface of the Oculus cake was a mind-boggling geometry experience that I did not see coming.

I also love real cakes. Let me know if you've had a chef's kiss, eyes closed, is-this-real-life?! cake recently. I'd love to hear about it! Here's my favorite.

To more cakes!
Reina

Most things start off as tape-covered prototypes.