papier mache masks

One of Thomas Wold's Turtle Bay Dancing Masks.

Turtle Bay Exploration Park Papier Mache Artist

Exhibits at Redding Library

Papier mache artist Thomas Wold , who will teach some of the basics of the medium at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in his “Mask Making Theater Workshop” on Sunday, September 21 and 28 at noon and then use the students with their masks in performance at the Redding Downtown “Art Hop”, will have an exhibition of fifteen of his own hand-made masks at The Redding Library, 1100 Parkview Avenue, Redding from August 13 to September 30, 2008.

Mr. Wold, who learned his craft in teacher's art courses at Sonoma State University and practiced it in various theater productions in Hawaii and at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, has a BA from UH and an MA degree in English from NAU.

Mr. Wold has taught classes from kindergarten to post-graduate level and from mountain villages in the Andes to Vladivostok, Russia and, with his wife Tanya, has made his home here in Redding since last November.

Working with scrap newspaper, cardboard and cast-off materials, simple wheat paste and acrylic colors, Wold demonstrates how unique artistic creations may be produced at practically no cost—he is convinced that papier mache is a great medium for such things as masks and theatrical needs.

Thomas is very interested in folk art and dance festivals—the wearing of animal and plant masks for seasonal celebrations and believes that Redding and Turtle Bay's most unusual sundial bridge is the perfect location for a six-month series of seasonal celebrations starting with the Winter solstice and ending with the summer solstice annually.

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