Pop-Up Puffins & More: A drop-in workshop for kids with Paper Engineer Shawn Sheehy

Have you ever played with a pop-up book and wondered how it's made? Here's your chance to learn just a little about how it's done! Join paper engineer/author Shawn Sheehy (Welcome to the Neighborwood, Beyond the Sixth Extinction) at a fun, casual drop-in workshop where you will build a pop-up puffin or bat. Materials provided. All you'll need is your curiosity!

Location: The Annex, Admiralty House Communications Museum, Mount Pearl

Free admission, donations to the Tara Bryan Legacy Fund accepted.

Recommended age: 8+

Presented in partnership with Association for the Arts Mount Pearl

More about Shawn:
Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such institutions as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. Sheehy’s trade pop-up books Welcome to the Neighborwood and Beyond the Sixth Extinction (both mass-market versions of previous artist books) were published by Candlewick and have won numerous awards. Sheehy served as director of The Movable Book Society from 2018 to 2023. He holds an MFA in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago.

You may also like the following events from The Tara Bryan Legacy Fund:

• Next Thursday, 18th September, 07:00 pm, Artist Talk with Paper Engineer Shawn Sheehy (Chicago, USA) in St. John's
• Next Saturday, 20th September, 10:00 am, Animated Pop-Ups Workshop with Shawn Sheehy in St. John's

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