Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media Workshop: Every House Tells a Story with Carol Owen

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Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media WORKSHOP

Every House Tells a Story
Instructor: Carol Owen

Gather your memories of people or places significant to you, and we will begin your journey of creating a spirit house that will tell your story. Here is the place for those mementoes and scraps of papers you couldn't bear to throw out, the bits and pieces gathering dust in a drawer, the photographs in a box. All these mementos can be used as you tell your story in your personal shrine. So gather your memories of people or places significant to you, and we will begin the journey of creating a spirit house that will tell your story.

First we will explore collage techniques that can then be featured in your house. You will learn how to paint and layer all kinds of ephemera: images, decorative papers, old sheet music, letters, school records. Anything paper is fair game. (I suggest you make photocopies of anything too sacred to tear up or paint over). The images can be of people or places. I often use them as a focal point, the main feature of the story. You will learn a variety ways of attaching these elements, such as different gluing techniques and sewing approaches, so you wind up with an effective and pleasing whole. Those special embellishments from your attic/basement (beads, buttons, keys, old lace, etc., anything small) are the icing on the cake, and will enrich your spirit house. I will take the mystery out of collage!

You will learn how to build your spirit house from readily available materials such as foam board, paper and glue. I will show you how to make hinged doors, drawers and niches. Victorian or contemporary, elaborate or simple, you are the architect. For those who've taken this workshop before, here's your chance to develop your collage skills, or even to remodel your starter house! Think of the possibilities, a remodel, or an addition? You could add wings to your first house, or more secret hiding spaces.
Your house will celebrate what's important in your life, friend or family, a trip or event, or beloved pet. The story you choose to tell is up to you. Come and I will help you tell it.

Click photos to zoom. Copyright Carol Owen

Studio & Material Fee:

Material fee covers Japanese rice paper, a lot of ephemera and miscellaneous studio supplies.

Student Supplies:

Students should bring the following supplies:

foam board, 3/16" thick
cutting mat
heavy duty utility knife (sometimes called a box cutter)
Sobo glue (a textile glue found a large craft stores)
Weldbond glue, gel medium, or Aileen's Tacky Glue
matte medium
gesso
6 straight pins
a short length of grosgrain ribbon (about 4" long)
acrylic paints and a few brushes
something to use for a palette
glazes, if you have them
photocopies of photos and other images you'd like to use (sized to fit a 5" x 6" format)
paper goods such as maps, letters, and documents, you'd like to use
a pad of watercolor paper
decorative paper (scraps are fine)
rubber stamps and ink pads, if you have them
small embellishments and mementoes, such as buttons, charms, beads, etc.

Optional Supplies:

None recommended.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION

Cancellations:
While we understand that circumstances can arise causing a change in your plans, we must adhere to a business policy. Because it is impossible for Valley Ridge to favor one individual situation or circumstance over another, we must adhere to our policy in all situations and can make no exceptions to our cancellation policy.

45 Days or More prior to a workshop: Full refund of tuition, less a $75.00 cancellation fee.
44 Days or Less prior to a workshop: No refunds or credits for any reason.

Registration Fees:
The entire registration fee is due in full at time of registration. Valley Ridge Art Studio provides a $75 advance deposit option to make it easier for those with financial constraints to participate in our programs. The advance deposit fee secures your workshop space, and is applied to your entire workshop registration fee. Payment for your fee/materials balance will be charged to your credit card 45 days prior to workshop. Non-credit card payments will receive an invoice, which is due upon receipt.

Transfer Policy:
You may transfer out of a workshop to another program in the same season. Transfer request must be received at least 45 days prior to a program. There will be a $50.00 transfer fee assessed on each transfer.

Credit Card Transaction Reversal:
You intended to reserve a workshop and registered for one instead. You noticed your credit card was charged for the entire balance and only wanted to apply $75.00. You would like your credit card credited for the difference. We at Valley Ridge Art Studio are willing to reverse your transaction. There will be a $25.00 administrative fee per reversal request. Your balance will be due 45 days prior to the workshop.

Program schedule is subject to change.

I understand the risks associated with my attendance at the Studio and the use of various tools, equipment and products found in the Studio. I voluntarily agree to assume the risk of injury or illness or property damage that may arise out of my attendance at the Studio and use of tools, equipment and products found in the Studio and hereby waive and release the Studio and its members, affiliates, employees, and agents and assigns from any and all claims, actions or losses which I may suffer as a result of my attendance at and use of the Studio. I further agree to hold harmless, defend and indemnify the Studio and its members, affiliates, employees, and agents and assigns from any and all claims, actions or losses arising out of my attendance at and use of the Studio or use of the tools, equipment and products found in the Studio regardless of the cause, including but not limited to the negligence of the Studio or its members, affiliates, employees, and agents and assigns.

Program Details

Date:	3/19/2010 to 3/21/2010
Time:	9:30 AM- 4:30 PM
Level:	All Levels
Min/Max:	8/15

Fees

Registration Fee	$442.50
Studio & Material Fee	$18.00

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about the instructor

Carol Owen has been a professional artist for 30 years, working in various media. For the last 12 years she has been working with collage and assemblage, making mixed media shrines. Her book, Crafting Personal Shrines, was published in 2004, and her work has appeared in numerous books and magazines. Carol was an exhibitor at the 2007 Philadelphia Museum of Art craft show and has been a featured artist in Mary Englebreit's magazine Home Companion.

Her shrines use old photos and memorabilia to tell family stories. At first they were about her own family. Then she began to make up stories, using found photos and objects (the search for these items is half the fun!) She and her husband live in North Carolina, near Chapel Hill. They love to garden and travel, but her main passions are making art and teaching.
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Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media WORKSHOP

Every House Tells a Story Instructor: Carol Owen

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION

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Every House Tells a Story
Instructor: Carol Owen