Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media WORKSHOP

 
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Personal Geographies: Mapping Your Life
Instructor: Jill Berry
 

Humans have been making maps for thousands of years: it is an urge some of us can't resist. Using collage, illustration, journaling, paint, paper and other mixed media, you will create "maps" of your life experience, based on historical models. These maps of the imagination can record our journeys of the past, future, backyards, hopes, dreams, and mythological places. In this workshop, you will make six maps and an Atlas case to contain them, and discuss the historical and contemporary treatments of maps and mapmaking.

 
 
 
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  Studio & Material Fee:
  Material fee covers kits for maps and atlas, lots of collage materials, pens, pencils, many handouts and "historical" stickers, miscellaneous student supplies.
 
  Student Supplies:
  Students should bring the following supplies:
  • Cutting mat
  • exacto
  • steel ruler
  • glue stick
  • scissors
  • thin Sharpie
  • colored pencils and pens you like
  • copies of small photos, maps or thin collage ephemera having to do with your history
 
  Optional Supplies:
 

None recommended.

   
 
 
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION
 




   
 
   
 
Program Details
 
 
Date: 3/28/2009 to
3/29/2009
Time: 9:30 AM-
4:30 PM
Level: All Levels
Min/Max: 8/15
 
  Fees
 
 
Registration Fee $295.00
Studio & Material Fee $25.00
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  This program is complete. Please review our current program schedule for other workshops of interest to you.
 

about the instructor

 

Jill is a mixed-media artist, teacher, and mom in the Rocky Mountains who makes story-telling structures. Her work involves social issues, maps, symbols, houses, housewives, and the mystique of charisma, and can be seen in Letter Arts Review, Somerset Studio, In Flight and Interactive Workshop: Mixed Media in Motion, and on jillberrydesign.com. Her handmade books are in the collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Denver Public Library, and private collections nationally. She has taught at three universities and other institutions nationally and she feels that art is essential!
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