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Welcome to the Classes and Workshops site. Thank you for finding the site and looking over the offerings. I hope to see you at an in person workshop or online for a fun and creative process learning experience.
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Papermaking Workshops 2022-2023
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2023
Online Classes and Workshops
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Online Classes and Workshops
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Book of the Month
$120.00
DATES AND TIMES:
January 10, February 7, March 7, April 4, May 9, June 6, July 11, August 8, September 5, October 10, November 7, and December 5, 2023
7:00 - 8:30 PM EST
A monthly book group that loves books, creating and working with a variety of art materials and processes to make original one of kind handheld endearing books to keep and share.
I welcome you to join me at one of my work stations to create some books in 2023.
Expect:
- Simple, intermediate and advanced bookbinding
- Surface design processes for paper and cloth to cover board, make boxes and signatures and pages
- Fiber and textile arts activities
- Sharing
- Learn a new way to create a book a month from traditional to contemporary techniques - something new for everyone
- Explore bookbinding tools
- Learn about different kinds of papers and materials
- Learn about resources and suppliers
- End 2023 with 12 handmade books
Prior to class registrants will receive a suggested supply and tool list of inexpensive items and supplies that you may already have to create with.
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. Zoom familiarity will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
All skill levels are invited to join us. Each class will be recorded.
The Creative Path
$12.00
THE CREATIVE PATH IN 2023
Twelve Months - Twelve Dollars
The journey continues.
How will you stay on the creative path in 2023?
Last year 2022 for twelve months a group met once a month to support, inspire and share their creative journeys. Some have made it the entire year so far and others have had other commitments. Regardless the Creative Path has been a joyful experience and I am offering the program again with all new sessions for those wanting to join for the first time or go on the path for 2023.
Come together online with others to discuss and plan to kickstart a creative and enriching new year. This program is intended to assist you with jumpstarting your creativity and learning how to get organized, stay focused with special attention on time management and completion of short and long range things that you want to accomplish with process in mind. If you want to talk the talk, let go of your inner critic, develop your visions and values to succeed and thrive with your personal art making then this will be time well spent. Leave each session feeling in control of your spiritual creative destination and have a stronger connection to nature. Don't be shy. This is going to be a fun filled twelve months and hopefully the time spent once a month will be well worth your time spent.
Don't get lost or loose your desire to stay creative in 2023. Join us and map out your direction for traveling through the new year creating and making all along the way.
This monthly group is to encourage, share projects, engage online with creative exercises for shifting to the right brain and learn ways to document progress, use your camera phone and make those things that have been on your list not to mention finishing those unfinished projects. Let 2023 be the year that you take charge and make all things handmade happen. Have your vision board come to life!
Expect to experience quick creativity projects in each class that will act as guided visualization reminders of your direction for a fun year of making. Learn many practical and useful techniques that can stimulate your imagination and expand innovative thinking. Connect more with process rather than product. Develop your curiosity while developing daily practice methods to assist with accomplishing your 2023 goals.
All skill levels, all mediums, all interests in the creative process are welcome to join. Artists, writers, book artists, quilters, mixed media, painters, printers, papermakers all are welcome.
Is it worth one dollar per month to stay the course by starting the year with a plan that still welcomes the serendipity and spontaneity we love?
The program will meet for twelve months on the first Monday of each month with the exception of January, July and September.
January 9, February 6, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, July 10 - no class on July 3,
August 7, September 11 - no class on Labor Day, October 2, November 6, and
December 4, 2023.
Class meets 7:00-8:30 PM EST. ALL CLASSES WILL BE RECORDED.
All registrants will be emailed the zoom link to join the each session.
LITTLE BOOKS
$75.00
LITTLE BOOKS
Mondays: January 23, February 20, March 20, April 17, and May 22, 2023
7:00 - 8:30 PM EST
Expect to make at least ten to 15 different types of books.
I love little books and can’t wait to make some more using all my favorite surface design techniques like botanical contact/Eco printing, natural dyes, rust, carved stamps, paste paper, mixed media, Gelli plate printing and more.
I will share some ways to distress papers, use ephemera, make small batches of handmade paper and just have a grand time with lots of surprises.
Small bookbindings for small books will be covered as well as envelopes, casings, boxes, reliquary and folio construction.
Go through your paper, book cloth, stitch and ephemeral stashes and let’s get some small books made with a new twist.
Great class for machine and hand stitchers.
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. Zoom familiarity will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
The class is a lecture series with hands on demonstrations, examples and time for answering questions. The class will be recorded for viewing at a later time.
All skill levels are invited to join us. Each class will be recorded.
DYEING TO SEW
$16.00
DYEING TO SEW
Dyeing to Sew moves into it’s sixth consecutive session. Participants have been from all over the United States. The common thread has been an interest in paper, cloth, thread, book arts and learning new things while elevating what is known.
The focus will be a continuation for the love of handmade. Learn how to work small, medium or large.
If you have never taken an online class before and want to spend a little time with some big learning opportunities then this is for you.
Dyeing to Sew returns for some Wintery fun!
All skills and techniques covered in January can be used on a variety of personal handmade works. The items shown for demos can also be created with felted wool, paper and cloth making for fun hands on creating.
MONDAYS, 2:00-3:30 PM EST (four weeks)
January 9, - Wet Felting
January 16, - Textile Surface Design: Printing on fabric and simple natural dye techniques for use in next week’s class
January 23, - Hand Stitched - Bowls, Vessels and Bags
January 30, - Art Dolls
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. Zoom familiarity will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
The class is a lecture series with hands on demonstrations, examples and time for answering questions. The class will be recorded for viewing at a later time.
All skill levels are invited to join us. Each class will be recorded.
MOON PHASES 2023
$30.00
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2023 - Second offering.
10:00 am until 1:00 pm
Join in while I create my new moon phase calendar for 2023.
I will share last year’s hand written, drawn and painted calendar cards and hand stitched book cover for the book I created to hold them. I have enjoyed these cards over the past months. The cards provide me with the visuals I need to connect more easily with nature and the planets in the universe. The moon is the brightest and largest object in our night sky and makes Earth a more livable planet.
Tides in masses of water are created by the moon. Farmers plant by the phases of the moon. The full moon heightens the senses of animals and humans alike. The moon is Earth’s most constant companion.
Put your tea kettle on or pour a fresh coffee. Join in or enjoy your recordings later to create alone.
This class will travel from beginning to end and their will be time for individual creating during class in order to have your own finished calendar and book as I finish mine with you.
Expect:
- Learn about layout and design for creating your own style
- Hear about and learn ways to use different art materials for painting, writing, drawing and preserving
- Have fun learning more about the moon
- Stitch a moon inspired piece on cloth for a book cover
Prior to class registrants will receive a suggested supply and tool list of inexpensive items and supplies that you may already have to create with.
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. This will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
All skill levels are invited to join us. Each class will be recorded.
Prior to class registrants will receive a suggested supply and tool list of inexpensive items and supplies that you may already have to create with.
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. Zoom familiarity will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
All skill levels are invited to join us. Each class will be recorded.
MOON PHASES 2023
$30.00
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2023 - First offering.
FIRST FULL MOON OF 2023!
10:00 am until 1:00 pm
Join in while I create my new moon phase calendar for 2023.
I will share last year’s hand written, drawn and painted calendar cards and hand stitched book cover for the book I created to hold them. I have enjoyed these cards over the past months. The cards provide me with the visuals I need to connect more easily with nature and the planets in the universe. The moon is the brightest and largest object in our night sky and makes Earth a more livable planet.
Tides in masses of water are created by the moon. Farmers plant by the phases of the moon. The full moon heightens the senses of animals and humans alike. The moon is Earth’s most constant companion.
Put your tea kettle on or pour a fresh coffee. Join in or enjoy your recordings later to create alone.
This class will travel from beginning to end and their will be time for individual creating during class in order to have your own finished calendar and book as I finish mine with you.
Expect:
- Learn about layout and design for creating your own style
- Hear about and learn ways to use different art materials for painting, writing, drawing and preserving
- Have fun learning more about the moon
- Stitch a moon inspired piece on cloth for a book cover
Prior to class registrants will receive a suggested supply and tool list of inexpensive items and supplies that you may already have to create with.
This series will meet on Zoom. Registrants will be provided with meeting details for class entry. Please become familiar with Zoom applications before class. Zoom familiarity will provide for a more relaxing experience at class time. Note taking suggested.
All skill levels are invited to join us. Each class will be recorded.
The Longest Thread - KANTHA STITCHING
$85.00
THE LONGEST THREAD
Thursdays, January 19, February 2, and 16, 2023 7-8:30 PM EST
Online class. All classes will be recorded. A link for the class will be emailed.
REGISTRATION CLOSES MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2023. REGISTRATION INCLUDES YOUR KIT AND SHIPPING. KITS ARE SCHEDULED TO BE MAILED IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THEM PRIOR TO THE FIRST CLASS.
Relax and venture back hundreds of years ago to an artisanal community of women in ancient times looking to old, worn and waste fabrics to craft a legacy of textile artifacts that inspire artists today to create quilts, wearable arts and accessories.
Learn to stack, create storytelling motifs, mandalas, patches, pattern design, composition, contemporary and traditional slow stitches, Saree Embroidery and Kantha Bengali. Consider materials in your kit and your own additions for stitching assembled pieces.
There are so many ways to incorporate the beauty of recycled vintage and natural dyed fabrics together in ways that everyone can enjoy with easy stitching methods to joyfully stitch in this workshop. From bright shades of cochineal pinks and reds, indigo blues, turmeric golds, to deep and muted shades chestnut browns and many more your kit includes an array of choices for mixing colors or sticking to monochromatic tones. There will be patterns, prints and solids, vintage and new silks and cottons.
Examples, diagrams and fun simple projects to easily make in between classes for sharing. Start small and move towards expanded projects with confidence after spending time with a small group of lovers of thread and cloth.
Each registrant receives a kit of recycled and naturally dyed fabrics for creating a sampler that can used as a stand alone work of art, pillow, a journal cover or small clutch or shoulder bag.
The first class covers history and supplies for starting the journey of Kantha and Saree slow stitching.