Get ready to jump in and get your hands wet! Your nature art journey starts here. Designed to coincide with World Ocean Day, this class sets the stage for deeper engagement with the world's oceans and to raise awareness about the vital role oceans play in our lives — from regulating climate and producing oxygen to providing food, jobs, and biodiversity.
Join Cape Cod educator/artist, Stephanie King, for a relaxed and creative workshop on the unique art of seaweed pressing. In this workshop we will make seaweed pressings using drift seaweed collected off the coastline of Cape Cod. Together we will learn how to create a “travel” press as well as learn the basic techniques for pressing seaweed on to paper. Collecting seaweed that has washed ashore is a lovely way to enjoy nature and create art with very little environmental impact. This art form is a wonderful way to relax, go with the flow and preserve your seaside memories. We will make several pressings of seaweed that can be used in scrapbooking, made into cards, or framed.
*For the love of the land and sea, all materials will be sustainably collected on Cape Cod by the instructor. Please bring a small container to bring some leftover seaweed home for further exploration.
About the Instructor: Stephanie King
Stephanie King is a native of Massachusetts. She maintains a full-time studio in Sandwich, MA. Stephanie is a Cape Cod based eco-artist who creates mixed media art on paper, canvas and wood panels using seaweed and botanicals. With a background in Sociology and Montessori education, Stephanie transitioned into a career in the visual arts in 2023. Driven by an innate desire to create and an aspiration to effect positive change in herself and her community, Stephanie’s art invites viewers to see seaweed and botanicals in new ways. She has been observing and studying plants, seaweed and nature through an artistic lens since 2005. She established ‘Seaside Botanical Art’ on Cape Cod in 2023. Since then, her artwork has been included in several group exhibitions as well as two solo shows on Cape Cod. She received an honorable mention in the 2024 Autumn Juried Exhibition at the Falmouth Art Center. In the Fall of 2025, Stephanie received the C.A.R.E for the Cape & Islands Stewardship Award for her commitment to preserve and enhance the natural environment, culture and history of the Cape and Islands. In addition to practicing sustainable methods while collecting drift seaweed and wild botanicals, she regularly cleans beaches and uses her work to educate and create behavior change.
Website: https://www.seasidebotanicalart.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-king-18750b359/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/stephanieking_botanicalart/
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