Park Open Studio: Pop-up Park Postcards with Rhonda Weppler

Led by a local teaching artist, this drop-in class invites participants to explore creativity through hands-on artmaking under the shade of Scrabble Plaza’s trees. Past mediums have included plein-air drawing, printmaking, cyanotypes, and more. All materials are provided by WSPC.

About the Workshop

Pop-up Park Postcards (Thursdays)

Based on Victorian souvenir 'virtual reality' tunnel books, participants design folding, 3D paper viewers of the park. Depictions can be either realistic, surreal, or imagined. Participants use Victorian-styled stickers and/or vintage, black and white-printed etchings colorized with watercolor paint. Mash up the present and past by including images from today. To complete your project, embellish a card box that mimics original tunnel book slipcases.

About the Artist

Rhonda Weppler focuses on the intersection of craft and sculpture. She has run numerous workshops and community-based projects in New York and internationally. Her collaborative video project (made with artist Trevor Mahovsky) Crafts Abyss was hosted by the Museum of Arts & Design (New York City, 2021). Other recent activities include OpenArt (Örebro, Sweden, 2022) and Wassaic Project (NY, 2025), as well as solo exhibitions at Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto, 2025), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Centre (New York City, 2023), Esker Foundation (Calgary, 2024), and Wagner Park (New York City, 2025). Her work is represented in public collections including Cornell University, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada. rhondaweppler.com