Puppet making

Finished puppet a very satisfying feeling. A good marionette puppet starting point.
Tools needed: scissors, paper glue, awe for poking holes, tape, and stapler
It is takes a little time to get the wool/string at the right length – put on a door handle or hook for ease. The stapled neck is threaded with wool/string through the head. Puncture paper to insert paper clips. Once everything is assembled decorated how you choose.

Equal But Not

‘Equal But Not’ by artist Fern Smith shines a light on two activists Mannie De Saxe and Kendall Lovett
Opened By: Nick Henderson from Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Inc
When: 4pm (open 4.30) Sunday 15th October 2017
Where: FernArtz Studio 23a Lorensen Avenue Merlynston North Coburg Melbourne 3058
RSVP: with name to Fern 0408978747 by 14/10/2012

Free
Eventbrite - Equal But Not art exhibition

Window Shopping 3058 style

The Fringe Festival wakes up Merlynston Shopping Centre with contemporary art installations
A Site-specific art exhibition by eight artists Agnes Whalan, Bridget Griffiths, Cara Best, Fern Smith, Josie Alexandra, Melody Greatorex, Ro Noonan and Trent Crawford and curated by Alisha Abate.

The artworks will festoon the shop windows and spill out onto the sidewalks with contemporary motion and installations arresting the foot traffic along the shopping strip of Merlynston Shopping Centre; where boundaries are blurred between public and private space.

Where: Lorensen Avenue:  FernArtz and Maxine Hair Dressing Merlyn Street: The Cubby Bake House & Deli Cafe, Queen of Paws and Welcome Shop Coburg North 3058
When: 14th September to 1st October 2017
Quote: Curator Alisha Abate:
Out of the white cubed gallery space and into the shopping strip of the Northern suburbs. Eight artists will create site-specifically artwork in Coburg North. Stroll along the strips of Lorensen Ave and Merlyn Street, peering into shop windows to see where boundaries are blurred between public and private space, where the artists reference their own personal and museological histories. The shop front window is an inaccessible space, boarded off to the public, but alludes us to look deeper into, inviting us further inside.
More info:  WEB: http://cargocollective.com/windowshopping SOCIAL MEDIA: FB https://www.facebook.com/events/1403520366400075/?ti=as