Art Bites: Art in Context, Pop Up Valentine’s Day Cards with Mark Soppeland

Learn to make your own Pop-Up card for Valentine’s Day. Given by retired Akron U professor and well-known artist, Mark Soppeland.

Mark Soppeland is Distinguished Professor of Art Emeritus at the Myers School of Art, The University of Akron. A painter, sculptor and designer, he has shown his work in over four hundred exhibitions on five continents. His work has officially represented the United States in exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Australia. Professor Soppeland’s work has been exhibited in international art fairs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and Miami. He has created over fifty public art projects, including works for the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival; Suma Health Systems; Prague Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Rep.; The San Franciso Center for the Book; Klenova Institute, Klenova, Czech Rep.; TIME WARNER Cable; The Bravo Networks; Americans for the Arts; Cleveland Public Theater; Philadelphia Children’s Hospital; Metro Health Medical Center; Akron Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art, Kohler Art Center; and E J Thomas Performing Arts Hall. He has been awarded five Ohio Arts Council Fellowships.

You are encouraged to add your own particular materials to this list, along with your own cutting mats, and tools if you have them! Also collage materials or other papers and things to use in making a card. We especially appreciate you bringing your own tools!! 

Recommended Materials list:

Bristol board

sheets of paper

scissors

X-acto knives

bone folders (or equivalent)

white glue

colored pencils

any other supplies available for drawing/ collage.

If for some reason you are not able to come please – please let us know asap – we may be able to give your spot away to someone else

Tickets are free, but preferred for attendance and planning purposes.