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Aug 2 11-5 in Bolinas 
Whirling Silken Visages (Mask Collage with silk paper)   Experience Sha Sha!. Cast a mask from a selection of Sha Sha’s rubber molds, then  fashion your own mask on top out of clay. Watch or cast yourself a negative out of rubber for your own customized mold.. The next day we will work with silk papers that we dye and collage into the surface and an encircling headdress or collar. With different methods of wiring to attach them to each to form  3 dimensional shapes. We will work with techniques Sha Sha uses in her costumes and ideas for formulating her movement and performances. Movement will inspire drawings that loosen us to create more visionary structures. At the end we will find a time make an informal performance of our masks. $100 includes general materials.$175 for both workshops. For the workshop, wear loose and dark clothing, journal or colored construction paper, pastels, pliers, scissors, cardboard, masking tape, and any ornamental yarns, trims, beads, fabric scraps, sticks, or other bits of interesting forms you find. Sha Sha covers all sculptural and casting materials, crinoline, foils for decorating, dyes, patinas, silk roving, and organic materials. August 16th in Bolinas Wire forms in Light One of the techniques Sha Sha uses in her costumes is manipulating three dimensional forms with wire, Sculpt your own sculpture out of wire. Stretch it with different colored papers and tint it with dyes.Or use it for your mask that you made the week before. Or when it is not being worn, electrically wire it and put it on a revolving base so it moves in the light( supplies available at workshop) A the end create a short performance vignette in a darkened room . We will work with some other techniques Sha Sha uses in her costumes and ideas for formulating her costumes.To get started and to take a break from our wirework, movement will inspire drawings that loosen us to create unimaginable structures.  Bring your own needle nose pliers medium size and some scrap newspaper,some varieties of rice paper. For the workshop, wear loose and dark clothing and bring a flash light, journal or colored construction paper, pastels, pliers, scissors, cardboard, masking tape, and any ornamental yarns, trims, beads, fabric scraps, sticks, or other bits of interesting forms you find. Call 415-868-2409 to register for one or both of these workshops International performance/sculptural artist, Sha Sha Higby is known for her evocative and haunting performances. using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she meticulously creates and moves  within. Sha Sha studied for 1 year in Japan, 5 years in Indonesia under a Fulbright Scholarship, and 6 months in India,she has received numerous awards and grants and has been performing since 1982 internationally and throughout the U.S., Europe, the Singapore Festival of the Arts, the Hong Kong Fringe Festival, the Bali Arts Festival, and the Sydney Festival of Arts,recently at the Glass Museum,Southwest Center for Craft She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in Theater, and the Japan-US Friendship commission, supported by the Zellerbach Family Fund. Whirling Mask Images Enter another world and create your own performance temple with an iconic image that comes alive as an archetypal image you can move within. Participants will explore the mysteries of creativity and performance in this hands-on mask making and costume workshop. Using your intuition, movement, and poetry, you will be led through a myriad of techniques for the construction of a three-dimensional costume. Learn to cast and mold one of Sha Sha’s masks, then recast, add extensions, sing wires, rice paper, and fibers – often inspired by the natural environment. We have only a day, but it will allow you to experience how Sha Sha works and creates her body sculptures. At the workshop’s end, all the elements of participants’ individual body sculptures will be joined along with Sha Sha’s costume to form a moving mandala of images. This workshop promises many surprises – poignant, powerful, humorous, and flamboyant. Let this creative opportunity inspire other realms of your life. The beginner is welcome, as well as the seasoned artist. For the workshop, wear loose and dark clothing and bring a flash light, journal or colored construction paper, pastels, pliers, scissors, cardboard, masking tape, and any ornamental yarns, trims, beads, fabric scraps, sticks, or other bits of interesting forms you find. Sha Sha covers all sculptural and casting materials, crinoline, foils for decorating, dyes, patinas, silk roving, and organic materials.
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Below are some pieces we made during a workshop at Mt. San Jacinto College this Fall. At the bottom is a listing about my workshop next week.
Student Work
Cast from Mold
Cast and Painted
Mask made from Gypsum
Another impression
Students Mask
Group of Masks
mask in progress
Wild mask
another students mask
Group performing together
Other Masks in Exhibition
Paper Mask Community Workshop at “The Museum of Glass” in Tacoma,Washington