Light Sculpture Workshop: Make Your Own Sculptural Lamp
Crafting Wire and Paper Lamps with Alex (Yeying) Wen
Workshop includes one complimentary glass of wine or drink
Make Your Own Sculptural Lamp. In this hands-on workshop, you will turn wire and paper into a creative but also functional glowing sculpture!
Make Your Own Sculptural Lamp
Make Your Own Sculptural Lamp
What You’ll Learn & Make
Step 1: Shape the Wire:
You will bend and twist craft wire to sculpt a hollow, 3D shape (whatever shapes you want). We will keep the bottom completely open so it can easily slip over a lamp base.
Step 2: Build the Walls:
Once your wire frame is ready, you will paste layers of light weight paper (like tissue or mulberry paper) over the wire. This creates a textured "skin" that lets light glow through.
Step 3: Light It Up:
Wire up your creation and watch your handmade paper sculpture transform into a one-of-a-kind lampshade. Take it home and place it on any compatible lamp base or light fixture to bring your own sculptural light into your space.
Artist Inspiration
Isamu Noguchi: The creator of the famous Akari lamps, who perfected the art ofwrapping delicate paper over thin frames to create warm, glowing sculptures.
Ruth Asawa: A legendary artist known for her intricate, interlocking wiresculptures that explore hollow forms, volume, and shadow.
Meet Your Instructor
Alex (Yeying) Wen
multidisciplinary ArtistAlex (Yeying) Wen is a New York–based printmaker and illustrator working across multidisciplinary visual arts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Her work explores an "imaginary reality" through the language of print, where small, isolated figures inhabit expansive worlds that reflect human fragility, resilience, and internal emotional landscapes. First discovering her passion for printmaking through etching—which became both a meditative practice and a source of creative freedom—she has since expanded her practice into lithography, mezzotint, letterpress, papermaking, and book arts. Wen utilizes these diverse technical processes to question the complexities of existence and the purpose of living. For her, making art is an exercise in sensitivity, vulnerability, and openness—a reminder that to feel deeply is what ultimately makes us alive.