Collage/Mixed Media Art Workshops
Upcoming Programs
Sacred Play
Date: May 18 - 20, 2012Instructor: Misty Mawn and Katie Kendrick
In this 3 day workshop, our collective intention is to explore this creative realm and discover the myriad ways it reveals itself to us. We will lead you on various “adventures” designed to enhance your imagination, relax your body, and help you access the expansive, sometimes elusive YOU. Activities include (but are not limited to) various painting projects – both individual and collaborative, nature art/walks, yoga, visual “journeying”, performance art and sacred ceremony.
Workshop DetailsAll Wrapped Up – Bracelets & Chokers
Date: June 8 - 10, 2012Instructor: Nina Bagley
Spend three full days designing richly detailed jewelry wraps that are perfect for layering assorted treasured findings, beads, and ribbons around either your neck or wrist; if made long enough, these pieces will look wonderful wrapped around the waist as well. I’ll be teaching a very wide variety of jewelry techniques for this brand [...]
Workshop DetailsAll Wrapped Up – Bracelets & Chokers II
Date: June 11 - 13, 2012Instructor: Nina Bagley
Spend three full days designing richly detailed jewelry wraps that are perfect for layering assorted treasured findings, beads, and ribbons around either your neck or wrist; if made long enough, these pieces will look wonderful wrapped around the waist as well. I’ll be teaching a very wide variety of jewelry techniques for this brand [...]
Workshop Details“Long Tall Sally” Book
Date: June 22 - 24, 2012Instructor: Beryl Taylor
Have some fun with the “Long Tall Sally” book. You’ll come away with a really interesting piece of art that you can keep on your shelf ( as long as it is a big one ) for years to come.
Workshop DetailsSingle Minded Binding
Date: June 29 - 29, 2012Instructor: Andrea Matus
“One of these thing is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong”, remember that from Sesame Street? Well believe it or not that song actually kind of relates to art of Single Sheet Coptic bookbinding. “Why?” well because one of the things that this style of binding allows us to do [...]
Workshop DetailsTransparental Guidance
Date: June 30 - 1, 2012Instructor: Andrea Matus
Typically collage is about the clever ways we combine items to cover over and transform surfaces; this time we are going to explore this medium in a slightly different way. In this class you will be guided through the collage process incorporating items that are transparent in nature. Combining transparencies, mica, photos, textured papers, ephemera, [...]
Workshop DetailsdeMent-triloquism
Date: July 4 - 6, 2012Instructor: Michael de Meng
deMent-triloquism: In case you were wondering, the fear of ventriloquist’s dummies is called automatonophobic (which by the way includes the fear of wax dummies and automatons like Zoltar the fortune teller). I can understand how ventriloquist dolls could illicit terror and trepidation; typically they are bit creepy looking. Remember Anthony Hopkins in the film Magic, [...]
Workshop DetailsTrash to Treasure Master Class
Date: July 7 - 8, 2012Instructor: Michael de Meng
Artists are renowned for using whatever is readily available in there surroundings to create art. You’re not going to see many coconut carvings in Alaska. In many ways, this is why the process of assemblage has become so popular; after all, junk and discarded things abound. Perfect pickings for those with the desire for junking [...]
Workshop DetailsLove Letters: A Passionate Correspondence
Date: August 10 - 12, 2012Instructor: Jill K. Berry
…should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. Abigail Adams to her husband, President John Adams. December 23, [...]
Workshop DetailsJigsaw to Jewelry: Monoprints and Jewelry
from the same Plates
Date: September 7 - 9, 2012Instructor: Thomas Mann
I had the unique experience of being able to be an “art major” during the junior and senior years of high school. I can remember a semester of print making and how intriguing I found the process. I got into it big time and pretty soon I was making silk-screen posters. I had the opportunity [...]
Workshop DetailsBloom True: A Brave Intuitive Painting Adventure
Date: September 14 - 16, 2012Instructor: Flora Bowley
Bloom True is an inspiring and encouraging workshop for both novice and experienced painters that teaches a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery. Learn how to create colorful, unique, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques that combine basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression and personal growth.
Workshop DetailsGut Instincts
Date: October 6 - 7, 2012Instructor: Melissa Manley
I have collected dolls and made dolls my whole life. But in later years I have become increasingly interested in spirit dolls and santos, or cage dolls. Come spend two days with me as we explore combining found objects, wire, metal and an ancient material used by hunter/gatherer cultures the world over, hog gut or [...]
Workshop DetailsSynchronicity
Date: October 12 - 14, 2012Instructor: Michelle Ward
A simple painted journal is transformed into a handsome and unique artist’s book when we begin with deliberate manipulations then let Synchronicity take over. Using circles in art-making is an endless adventure and I never tire of investigating the possibilities with the classic, simple shape. Circles play an integral role in our interactive art book that will focus on all celestial beings, particularly the sun and the moon. These subjects unlock portals where one can explore dramatic shifts from light to dark, the subtle nuances between positive and negative, and the navigation of scale and repetition.
Workshop DetailsThe Mystic Marionette of the Marigny
Date: February 18 - 23, 2013Instructor: Michael de Meng
Palm and Tarot readers line the New Orleans sidewalks with visions of the future…well…perhaps. To honor Big Easy soothsayers I thought we’d have a bit of fun using some puppetry. In this class we will be creating marionettes that have moving arms that foretell forthcoming events. The real inspiration for this class is the card [...]
Workshop DetailsCompleted Programs
La Maison Fantôme
Date: January 30 - 4, 2012Instructor: Michael DeMeng
It is said that my home is haunted (though I have never seen the alleged spirit) but have had a number of friends who swear they exist and have experienced a variety of eerie occurrences with ghostly types. So it dawned on me that perhaps these ghosts just need a little bit of pampering, and this got me thinking about an interesting idea for a class: “la maison fantôme”, the ghost house.
Workshop Details…Wax On Wax Off
Date: April 27 - 29, 2012Instructor: Mary Beth Shaw and Julie Snidle
Join Mary Beth Shaw and Julie Snidle for a weekend of waxy wonder as we explore a variety of mixed media wax techniques. No body hair involved. Day 1 starts with the return of the ever popular Batik Paper and Mary Beth will share all the new methods she has developed. Papers that are so [...]
Workshop Details…Postcards from the Other Side of Your Brain
Date: May 5 - 6, 2012Instructor: Quinn McDonald
Through collage, found poetry, and experimentation with inks as paint, you’ll create intuitive art for one side of the postcard. The other will be messages developed using your own inner wisdom reached though guided visualization during deep writing sessions. The result will be Postcards From the Other Side of Your Brain, a set of tarot-like cards.
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