Wow Your Sweetie with a Pop-Up Valentine’s Day Seminar

From www.colettefu.com // Nearly two thousand Yi gather on a hillside in Yongren County for their annual costume festival. Their embroidery contains important symbols of Yi myths and legends. Need an activity for Valentine’s Day? Reserve a seat in Colette Fu’s Pop-Up Workshop for you and your honey.

Colette Fu is more than a paper engineer. She reclaims the art-form of “moveable books” – commonly associated with children – and makes works that have sociological, scientific and philosophical bents. Through pop-up books, she has explored the concept of anxiety, criminal justice, and the ghosts of American history.

Right now, she’s working on a project called “We are Tiger Dragon People,” a pop-up project funded with Colette’s Fulbright Scholarship that captures the 25 different ethnic minorities in China’s Yunnan Province.

Click here for a NYTimes multimedia feature that shows Colette’s intricate work-in-progress in 360 degrees and gives some background about Colette’s unique and skillful cultural tribute that literally bursts from the binding with life.

And click here to sign up for Colette’s February 13^th Pop-Up Workshop!