Sumi Sound Print Workshop with Nelly Kate (2PM)

About This Event

Join artist Nelly Kate for a process-based workshop exploring sound, surface, and mark-making through cymatics and the Japanese art of sumīnagāshi, the ancient technique of ink marbling. In sumīnagāshi, sumi ink is gently floated on still water and coaxed into spontaneous patterns before transferring to paper. At once delicate and dynamic, these forms embody fluidity, impermanence, and listening. By bringing together this ancient technique with the scientific phenomenon of cymatics, a new process emerges that fosters subtle awareness of the resonance and form of sound waves. In this session, participants will activate ink and water through sonic vibration, experimenting with sound as both a phenomenon and a catalyst. What happens when sound becomes form? What might we learn by responding to sound through tactile process, gesture, and attentiveness? Inspired by the Still in Sound exhibition’s investigations of sound’s unseen presence and its call to attune to resonance beyond the audible, this workshop invites you to slow down, sonically engage, and make visible the ways vibration shapes experience.​ All materials will be provided; no previous printmaking or musical experience required. The program costs $20 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 (materials fee) for CSM members. Program costs include Museum admission for the day. Registration is required to attend in person at the Clyfford Still Museum.