Open Your Eyes (O.Y.E.) Community Arts Project – Watercolor with Stencils
Art making workshop by Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper, SISTAAH STUDIO:
For: Adult cancer survivors, friends and family, open to the public.
Cost: Free
Registration is required to participate: RSVP
The proposed dates are for Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm. (Subject to change. Please check back in early September)
Registration is required to participate: RSVP
About the facilitator: Tomo Mori (Sub for Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper, this session only)
Tomo Mori is a native of Japan and a West Harlem-based artist who focuses on fiber art installation and collage.
Tomo learned watercolor rigorously under a master watercolorist from age 14 to 15 to enroll herself at Tokyo Metropolitan High School for Music and Fine Art, and she was accepted to the school with a perfect score.
Watercolor is not central to her current art practice; however, she uses the skill to sketch her ideas or keep a visual journal. When she paints watercolor, she finds freedom, lighting her spirit. Perhaps because they are just sketches, or the medium is easy to manage. Through these workshops she wants to share the joy and therapeutic nature of watercolor painting.
Tomo’s work has been exhibited in various venues like Columbia University, Scope Miami, Laundromat Project, Rush Arts Galleries, Governors Island, Newark Museum, and Christie’s. She received a commission from MTA and completed a laminated glass and metal installation in 2018. She participated in the Winter Workspace Residency at Wave Hill in early 2023. She is currently working as a studio artist at the Children’s Art Carnival.