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and hats, adorn them with scarves, glasses, jewelry, maybe even a monocle.
“My original thought was that we’d end up with pretty realistic looking people. But the outcome depends on what kind of person the participants want to make,” Ms. Drevas said, adding that she envisioned experienced and first-time artists working together in groups of four or five on each mannekin. “Or womankin. Or childekin. They could make a dog if they wanted to and leave it in the aisle for somebody to trip over!” she joked. “Some of the folks who’ve already signed up for the workshop see less of a realistic result than I envision. Certainly it would be human looking, but it wouldn’t be a traditional mannekin with a painted face.”
The key word in this workshop, the second in a series of six sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, is FUN. And the way Jeanne Drevas says it, that’s FUN in capital letters. “I really want this to be FUN,” she repeated for the fourth or fifth time. “I don’t want anybody to be intimidated. If someone wants to add something to a face, that’s fine. If they want to put a funny hat on top of a wig, that’s fine. And if they don’t want to add anything but suggestions, that’s fine, too. Some people are more artistic than others, but everybody has ideas about art,” she said, emphasizing that she plans to be a catalyst, rather than the leader, for the workshop.
“The idea just came to me one day,” the artist continued, explaining how this unusual artistic venture came to be. “The artists here in Rappahannock are all so busy, going round and round on a treadmill. They never have time to get together.” And they have even less time for creative interaction with non-artists, she added. “I started out thinking of a mobile, and the less artistic folks could work out the balance. But then I couldn’t see what we’d do with it. We couldn’t hang it from the ceiling in the Gay Street Theater, and let people try to watch a movie through pieces of the mobile!” Still focusing on the theater as the showcase for whatever would be
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