Monterey Museum of Art on Pacific Street presents a workshop entitled Drawing in Space on Saturday, September 8, 1pm-4pm. Artist and educator Mitra Fabian (featured in MMA’s exhibition, The New Domestics, Finding Beauty in the Mundane) will guide workshop participants through a process of bending and fixing caning reed and other materials to create graceful, linear three-dimensional sculptures. Fee is $80 for museum members, $90 for all others. Register online.

Mitra Fabian’s artwork is a reflection of local human industry. She is a sculptor and installation artist working almost exclusively with manufactured materials: the leftovers, the by-products, the remnants of human activity. These materials cannot be just any garbage; they must generate a visceral response in the artist. It may be the material itself, or the shape and size of it, or the way it conducts or reflects light. She builds and deconstructs or alters the materials in such a way that they are not immediately recognizable. The reconstruction is in some way determined by what the material is capable of doing, but not meant to do. The new physical form is always more organic, often mimicking the appearance of natural patterns, landscape, magnified cells, or mold.