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George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History
Creative learning takes on a special tint at a workshop at College of the Atlantic's George B. Dorr
 Museum of Natural History on Saturday, July 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Virve Hirsmaki, a third-year student from Finland, will be conducting a workshop in needle felting at the museum. Using the museum's touch tank, the Hirsmaki will guide attendees to create a felted square featuring colorful tidepool creatures such as sea stars, anemones, crabs. The work they will be doing will be a piece of a larger tapestry featuring the intertidal world of the Maine coast. As museum program director Lynn Havsall says, "The tide's the limit."
Hirsmaki's own felted hanging, a 6-by-8-foot felted reflection of her time at the college's research station on Great Duck Island, now graces the Grierson Gallery of the Dorr Museum. A science student and expert felter, she has taught many others the craft.
The finished wall hanging, composed of all the squares from the workshop, will be exhibited at the museum throughout the summer. Workshop participants will decide whether to leave the hanging intact come fall, or have the individual squares returned.
Cost for the workshop is $25 per person, which includes all materials. Adults and children ages six and up are welcome. Pre-registration is required. Bring a lunch-cookies and muffins will be provided. For more information, and to register, call Havsall at 288-5395 or 288-2944 ext. 240.
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