Pasadena City College
Ceramics Lab Room Z 100
1570 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91106
Join Pasadena City College artist-in-residence Karen Lofgren to create your own seed sculptures that will dissolve into the landscape—simple, effective tools for ecological recovery! Related to her work, the artist is an avid gardener of edible, medicinal, and rare specimen plants.
Related to her work, the artist is an avid gardener of edible, medicinal, and rare specimen plants. During the workshop, Lofgren will speak about her exhibition Love to Pain as it relates to the ecological benefits of seed sculptures and practices of healing between our species and all species.
Love to Pain is on view at the PCC’s Boone Family Gallery until May 2.
Participants will be given the materials and instructions for hand-forming seed balls and small seed sculptures out of clay, which can be distributed quickly and easily throughout our local neighborhoods. As the elements erode the greenware sculptures, the seeds are distributed throughout the soil, helping to bring new life to the landscape and creating lasting environmental impact and beauty, with minimal effort.
Open to the public. No previous experience required.
Due to on-site equipment safety requirements, this workshop is limited to ages 15 and up.
Presented in partnership with The Galleries at PCC.
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Karen Lofgren is a Los Angeles-based, Canadian visual artist, whose feminist and decolonial research centers on the living world: ritual, history, medicine, and how our cultural systems connect to other wild systems. Her monograph: emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living was published by Set Margins’ press in 2023. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, Pollock-Krasner Grantee, was Fulbright Core Scholar at UAL, Central St. Martins College, and receives support from Canada Council for the Arts. Exhibitions include The Americas Society, Palm Springs Art Museum, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, OCAD University, Pitzer Art Galleries, RCA London, and LACE.