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Kelly and Kyle Phelps - will demonstrate a variety of techniques used to create figurative relief work with an emphasis on storytelling. The twins will share their process from start to finish on how their work is created and discuss how the use of the figure can be the perfect vehicle to talk about topics that include but are not limited to social/political, environmental issues, race, religion, class, sexuality, gender, poverty, war, and other current issues. Sequential topics ranging from initial idea generation, music, personal interviews, site visits, material meaning, and other related topics that inspire and inform their work will be explained. Formal aspects of armature/relief board construction, composition, scale/proportion, figure sculpting, surface treatment, and final presentation will be revealed. In this two-day workshop, the twins will create a high relief figurative narrative that will be influenced by their blue-collar working class background.