Back by popular demand, Red Hot Workshops are free hands-on arts workshops in the gardens of Stevens Square-Loring Heights, facilitated by teaching artists.

These workshops are sign-up required and first-come-first-serve. Sign up here!

Get together with your bestie or loved one and create a custom aluminum casting! Your design will be scratched into a resin-sand scratch tile in the shape of the interlocking pieces of a "best-friend" heart. The artists, Sarah Dorau & Cassi Rebman with their two portable furnaces, will pour the scratch tiles out of aluminum for the participants to take home and cherish forever!

Sarah Dorau's work explores the relationship of nature vs nurture in contemporary society. Utilizing casting as her main artistic process she is better able to examine her relationships with others. To Dorau, art that embodies modes of relatedness will enliven our culture and create meaningful connections between art and society. Although everyone differs in experiences, there are certain things that interrelate us all, uniting us as humans. Using clear natural elements with modern concepts allows Dorau to create work that employs empathy, understanding, and appreciation.
To view images of Sarah's work, visit instagram.com/sdorau

Cassi Rebman's work asks, “What are we capable of and what might be holding us back?” Rebman surveys themes of mortality and human frailty, psychological susceptibility, dependence and codependence, established ideas of being and an increased mediation of our experience through the screen. Within the recognizable, Rebman creates an access point for the viewer to engage with on some level. She finds that the physical immediacy of the object is prime for this engagement, entering a person's sphere of being mentally, if not physically by interacting directly with it.

For more information and to view images of Cassi's work, visit www.cassirebman.com