NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Join artist Jackie Inglefield March 19 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in a workshop focused on sustainability and the use of recycled materials to create a New Orleans-inspired hanging door sculpture!

Using hand tools, participants will explore quilting techniques to construct a vibrant sculpture out of recycled plastic. After learning about the effects of plastic waste on the environment, participants will then reuse objects such as plastic water bottles to stop the plastics from entering landfills, oceans and the environment. Participants will “rebirth” the objects, giving them a new life by creating artwork with the recycled materials.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mixed media artist Jacqueline Ehle-Inglefield received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking in 1992 from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2014, Ms. Inglefield returned to her native New Orleans to advance her work in sculpting from non-traditional materials and found objects and, in 2015, was a featured artist in the Louisiana Contemporaries exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Employing repurposed plastic as the primary medium, Inglefield calls attention to the effect of man-made waste on the ecology of New Orleans waterways. Her works are held in several private collections.

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