Bridget Mary Henry
friend or foe
First Friday Artist Reception
May 2, 2025, 5:00-8:00pm
Showing May & June
Bridget Henry is a California based printmaker known for her hand carved woodcuts. Her work often explores the intersections of nature, perception, and transformation. Drawing from both ecological themes and personal experience, she uses traditional printmaking techniques to explore questions about how we define and relate to the world around us.
Friend or Foe is a series of woodcut prints that explores how we perceive the world around us: animals, plants, people, and how those definitions shift depending on context. A predator can be seen as a threat or a keystone species. A plant might be dismissed as a weed or revered as medicine.
Bridget Henry invcites viewers to reflect on the frameworks that shape perception and judgment. Each print is exhibited with its original carved woodblock, creating mirrored images that speak to duality and reflection. Some surfaces are toned with rust, evoking transformation and the passage of time, pointing to the instability of fixed categories.
This series holds space for ambiguity. What we label as friend or foe may reveal more about our personal experiences than about the subject itself.
Tumbleweed Found, 1025 Center St., Downtown Santa Cruz
Corner of Center and Chestnut.
Mother’s Day Sip & shop
78 Vinyl & Flowers
Pre-Mother’s Day Pop Up with RREVV, Salvaged Succulents and
Bridget Henry
Saturday, May 3, 1-6pm
Jewelry, Picture Frames and Flower Displays by Rigel Hunter
And RREVV Leather Sale!
Collage Prints by Bridget Henry!
We’re sorry but Salvaged Succulents is now unable to attend. We ope to reschedule with her soon!
Rigel Hunter is a skilled metal sculptor and furniture designer with over 25 years of experience in metal fabrication,blacksmithing, and machining. Since 1996, he has honed his craft through hands-on learning and mentorship under master artisans.He owns and operates Hunter Designs on the Westside of Santa Cruz, offering custom art and architectural metalwork for interior designers, architects, and homeowners. His projects range from large-scale design features to fine art installations for homes and businesses. Rigel’s expertise blends the strength of industrial-scale works with the refinement of elegant craftsmanship.
In addition to his metalwork, Rigel co-founded RREVV with his wife Rachel, showcasing local artists alongside their collection of leather bags and accessories, bespoke lighting, and Rigel’s sculpture and jewelry. His dynamic interests extend to machine building, refurbishing, and mastering new processes.
Bridget Henry is a California based printmaker known for her hand carved woodcuts. Her work often explores the intersections of nature, perception, and transformation. Drawing from both ecological themes and personal experience, she uses traditional printmaking techniques to explore questions about how we define and relate to the world around us.
Mother’s Day Sip & shop
78 Records & Flowers
Sunday, May 11th, 1-6pm
Sip Mimosas & Shop at Tumbleweed this Mother’s Day. Laura DeFreyne, Friends of Tumbleweed Found will be “spinning” Old 78 ‘s on her Victrola. We’ll be offering flower bouquets from Do Right Flower Farm. Enter free raffle to win a mother of pearl swan Zuni carving.
Laura is a singer, lifelong archivist and ethnomusicologist.
Flowers available all day, 10-6.
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At Tumbleweed Found, Estate Consignment Boutique,
1025 Center St., Santa Cruz
When the Muse speaks
A spontaneous journey in found object Assemblage sculpture
with Craig Mitchell
Sunday, June 1, 12:00-4:00 2 SPOTS LEFT!!!
Craig has been making sculpture for six decades, five of those in Santa Cruz. He holds a BA in sculpture from UCSC where he attended in the late 70’s studying with Fred Hunnicutt and Doug McClellan.
"The variety of manufactured shapes made for various purposes is bewildering. Every conceivable shape is or has been made and can be found, it seems. I get to find and play with these shapes and make them say things quote different than the original makers had in mind. Sometimes a work is a purposeful execution, sometimes it is partly accidental. The bumping together of disparate shapes; the invocation of serendipity, resonance. Many shapes that catch my eye are imbued with age and certain sensibility on the part of the original maker or the original designer. The times and cultural paradigm, the material availability, work ethic, intended purpose; all play a role in how an object looks and feels to the eye. What bumps into the mind.” Craig Mitchell
$200 Semi-Private Workshop
At Tumbleweed Found
1025 Center St. , Downtown Santa Cruz
Registration Required, non-refundable
This workshop will be a semi-private workshop of four participants to instructor, Craig Mitchell. Participants will create a free-standing sculpture made out of found objects primarily in wood, metal and glass. Wirework is an essential part to this workshop. Participants must be comfortable using a drill.
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Elevenses
Every Wednesday 11am-1:30 pm
(previously held on Tuesdays)
Grab your coffee/tea @11th Hour and join us at our intimate community art table. We supply all the materials. Make a collage out of broken books, old song sheets, vintage photos, postcards and other ephemera.
Donations appreciated.
Very Limited Space. SIGN UP NOW REQUIRED for indoor and outdoor (weather permitting) spaces.
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At Tumbleweed Found
Estate Consignment Boutique
1025 Center St., Santa Cruz
Please use free parking lots, paid parking garages or Park Mobil App to avoid parking tickets.