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The Painted Page
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Sat May 3, 2008 - Sun May 4, 2008
Treat yourself to two full days of getting messy with paint and making interesting pages in your visual journal. Get immersed in the process and gain a new perspective and enthusiasm for both painting and journaling.
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Attachment and Devotion
Instructor: Linda and Opie O'Brien
Date: Sat Jun 7, 2008 - Sun Jun 8, 2008
Learn the art of attachment, the solution to creatively join objects to one another. In this program, you will construct a devotional/shine from raw wood and learn myriad techniques to ensure secure and flawless attachments.
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Artists' Books
Instructor: Mira Coviensky
Date: Sat Jun 21, 2008 - Sun Jun 22, 2008
Artists' books have the potential to combine images and writing with sculpture in unique and exciting ways. Created as art objects, they differ from journals and scrapbooks while remaining a form of personal expression.
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Gatherings
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Sat Aug 2, 2008 - Sun Aug 3, 2008
Spend two days learning several different "framing" techniques to create shallow shadowboxes on vintage book covers from such everyday items as dowel rods, box tops, matchboxes, and mica. Create one, two, or more art pieces that can be tucked within a ribboned "portfolio" that will hold your treasured artwork as a unified piece.
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Gatherings II
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Mon Aug 4, 2008 - Tue Aug 5, 2008
Spend two days learning several different "framing" techniques to create shallow shadowboxes on vintage book covers from such everyday items as dowel rods, box tops, matchboxes, and mica. Create one, two, or more art pieces that can be tucked within a ribboned "portfolio" that will hold your treasured artwork as a unified piece.
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The Four Seasons II: Mixed Media for all Seasons
Instructor: Misty Mawn
Date: Thu Aug 14, 2008 - Fri Aug 15, 2008
What color is Autumn to you? Could it be just one color, or is it a bountiful collection of colors, like a scattering of newly fallen leaves in the middle of October? What about Spring, Summer, and Winter? Can you capture them with paint and collage -- yes, you can!
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The Four Seasons: Mixed Media for all Seasons
Instructor: Misty Mawn
Date: Sat Aug 16, 2008 - Sun Aug 17, 2008
What color is Autumn to you? Could it be just one color, or is it a bountiful collection of colors, like a scattering of newly fallen leaves in the middle of October? What about Spring, Summer, and Winter? Can you capture them with paint and collage -- yes, you can!
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Open Book: An Artist Journal Weekend
Instructor: LK Ludwig
Date: Fri Sep 5, 2008 - Sun Sep 7, 2008
We'll dig a little deeper as we make art journal pages that are rich with meaningful content and wonderful to behold. During a weekend of classes packed with creativity boosters, insight activities and interesting techniques, you'll explore some universal journaling themes, creating pages to compile into a finished journal that will serve as a guide book for further work.
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Mixed Media Collage: Visual Board Journal
Instructor: Katie Kendrick
Date: Sat Sep 13, 2008 - Sun Sep 14, 2008
Create an intimate and delicate visual journal using recycled cardboard and cheesecloth and fill it with textured, chunky pages filled with a combination of personal artwork and journaling.
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The Book of Talking Ribbons
Instructor: Pamela Sussman
Date: Sat Sep 20, 2008 - Sun Sep 21, 2008
Create a delightful book with hard covers, watercolor pages and colorful signature wraps sewn over luscious ribbons in a criss-cross fashion, known as the Romanesque braid binding.
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Dwell: The Coffee Table Book
Instructor: Traci Bautista
Date: Fri Sep 26, 2008 - Sun Sep 28, 2008
Build a coffee table visual journal that measures up to 16" x 21". The journal covers are painted mixed media board with a doorway cutout, which tips out to expose a personal mantra. Inside the journal houses, hand painted and stained pages flip and fold in "non-traditional" ways.
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Crafting Personal Shrines
Instructor: Carol Owen
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 - Sun Oct 5, 2008
Learn how to construct a shrine that will tell your story, using your special photos and memorabilia. Using assemblage and collage, make a shrine to someone, someplace or something special.
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Bone Tool Making
Instructor: Shanna Leino
Date: Fri Oct 17, 2008 - Sun Oct 19, 2008
Smooth, polished to a shine and fitting perfectly in your hand, there is nothing like the feel of a bone folder made with your own hands. During this three-day workshop, you will be introduced to the tools and techniques needed to form and finish bone folders of your own design.
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The Artful Alphabet
Instructor: Lynne Perrella
Date: Sat Oct 25, 2008 - Sun Oct 26, 2008
As children we're told "A is for Apple, C is for Cat",etc. As artists we have a whole lifetime of experiences and inspirations to harvest to create our personal Exemplar. (Exemplar: An artistic presentation of the letters of the alphabet.) We will work with collage and mixed media painting techniques to create large, expressive works of art that describe and define our lives. Each artist will create a bold and distinctive alphabet, using personal memorabilia and other ephemera, combined with painting, stamping, mono-printing, and found objects. Learn new ways of working with images, as well as tips for maintaining your creative verve.
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Nina Bagley |
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Juliana Coles |
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Mira Coviensky |
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Daniel Essig |
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Katie Kendrick |
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Shanna Leino |
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Keith Lo Bue |
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LK Ludwig |
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Kathy Malkasian |
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Misty Mawn |
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Linda and Opie O'Brien |
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Carol Owen |
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Lynne Perrella |
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Michelle Ward |
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Judy Anderson
Where Do I Go From Here?
I was looking for direction when I attended the two Michael DeMeng workshops last summer at Valley Ridge. I had been using metal and mechanical parts and re-purposing them in collage for a number of years when something inside said, where do I go from here?
Full Story >>
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Do you have a story to share with the Valley Ridge Community? Learn how
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