Art Show: Anna Beurskens
Local artist, business owner, and interior designer Anna Beurskens debuts her solo art show ‘Park Culture: A Series of Wrapped Panels’ at Black Bird! The show is on display now through June 23rd, with a celebratory closing party on June 21st at 6pm, featuring a performance by harpist Katherine Siochi.
Anna learned to crochet and sew when she was just 6 years old, and has loved the medium of textiles and fibers ever since. Today, she makes wrapped panels, a technique she created and has fine-tuned over the last couple of years. She finds that the constraints of this particular technique allow for more creativity in color, texture and composition.
"I have always been a maker - from folding dinner napkins just so to large installations for clients... I'm always creating, making, and fiddling."
Within both her artistic and interior design practices, Anna owns the ecological responsibility of what she brings into the world. She sources most of her fibers from SCRAP, a non-profit and creative reuse center that supports arts in the community.
Each piece is unique because it is fully dependent on the reclaimed resources available to her at the time of its creation. All of the pieces showcased are handmade in Anna's studio - her living room floor - with the help of her cat, Chesterfield.
"Each piece is unique in that they are all made from reclaimed materials - which means sometimes I have to wait for the right ball of yarn to come around before I can start on a piece."