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How to Make a Piñata

How to Make a Piñata

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Mary Gallagher-Stout
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Mary is a Studio Artist and Instructor at the Workhouse Art Center in Lorton VA.  Ms. Gallagher-Stout is a highly sought after decorative consultant and professional artist. Mary has studied in France, Italy, and Mexico to supplement her formal education.  Ms. Gallagher Stout holds a BA in Philosophy and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rosemont College in 1996.  She owns and operates a successful decorative painting company that services commercial facilites as well as private residences.  In 2008, she interned on HGTV's hit series Designed to Sell and in 2007 she was a Graduate Resident Artist of Virginia Commonweath University's Summer Studio Program.

Mary is currently focusing on her studio art and has been invited by esteemed curator and educator, Trudi Van Dyke, to be a part of an upcoming exhibit.  Ms. Gallagher Stout recently collaborated with award winning artist, Chelsea Owens, on her Wonder Womb Installation. Wonder Womb will be on exhibit at the Workhouse Art Center, Building W-16, for the entire month of March, 2009.

Mary offers private workshops in decorative painting and fine art.  This Spring, Mary will be teaching sculpture and mixed media to children ages 8-10. Classes fill quickly so be sure to register early.  For more information and the detailed course description visit www.workhousearts.org.

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How to Make a Piñata

In this video series, studio artist Mary Gallagher-Stout demonstrates how to make a traditional star piñata. Mary goes through the process of making the paper Mache paste and making the base. Mary also shows how to decorate your piñata using colored tissue paper and streamers.

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Mary Gallagher-Stout: Hi! I am Mary Gallagher-Stout and today we are going to be creating a traditional Mexican Piata. Through this demonstration, I will be showing you how to make your own paste, how to prepare you mold and filled paper-mache on the mold, how to assemble your molds together and create a star. Then we are going to decorate, fill it and then it's party time.

The supplies that we'll need to make the piata are we are going to need a 2:1 ratio of flour to water to make the paste. Our molds will be a balloon and a water bottle top. We are going to need masking tape, newspaper, saran wrap, crepe paper, tissue paper, a hole puncture, and something to hang your piata with like filament or ribbon or yarn and we're also be using some mod podge, tacky glue to adhere the decorations on to the piata because it's tackier and it sets up quicker, so we can get everything off and running and have our piata ready to go.

Also I would like to mention that this is a very messy project so you should make sure that you lay down some newspapers so you can clean up in a jiff. Before we get started, I want to tell you a little about myself. I am a studio artist and decorative painter at the Lorton Art Workhouse Center in Lorton, Virginia. I have been painting and creating my whole life and filling piatas is sculpting in a sense and I really look forward to introducing you all to this really exciting medium and I came right to show you. So let's get started.

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