Jan 23, Feb 13, Mar 19, Apr 23, May 14, and Jun 18, 2012 Mondays 6:30 – 9:00

Instructor: Heather Hietala Cost: $234 (no materials fee) (suggested that one has taken Keeping Creative Visual Journals)

Description: Drawing on the idea of a daily journal practice you will explore and expand your own personal artistic style. Often it is less daunting or intimidating to explore the development of new ideas and images in the smaller format and repetitive nature of a journal. This class works
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April 14–15, 2012 Sat and Sun, 10am – 4pm

Instructor: Aimee Lee Cost: $295 – includes $35 materials fee (6 students min / 10 max)

Description: Korean papermaking has a history almost as long as papermaking itself. Korean paper, known as hanji, is made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree, renowned for its long and strong fibers. This makes hanji ideal for an array of applications suitable for book and fiber arts. Students will add water to hanji to learn a felting and
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May 5 and 6, 2012 Saturday and Sunday, 10 – 5 PM Steve Pittelkow & Alyssa C. Salomon $295.00 includes material fee of $35, all materials included.

Learn and combine two classic techniques to produce dazzling images on paper, for use as decorative paper or as stand-alone content.  On Saturday, we’ll make beautiful Prussian blue prints using cyanotype, one of photography’s earliest and easiest incarnations.  Then, we’ll set up the marbling tanks on Sunday and marble vivid color patterns onto our prints.

This workshop is
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May 11-13, 2012 Fri 6 – 9 pm, Sat 9 am – 4 pm, & Sun 9 am – 1 pm

Instructor: Gwen Diehn Cost: $211 (includes a $10 materials fee)

We all reach a point in our lives when we finally realize that we know better than anyone else just what it is that we need and want. What would happen, then, if we designed our own journals, and designed them from the inside out? Designing-from-the-inside-out is
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May 19 and 20th, 2012 Sat & Sun, 9:00 – 5:00 with a break for lunch

Instructor: Heather Hietala Cost: $216 (plus materials fee)

Description: The marks we make become a language, recording time, energy and narrative. Working with paper and cloth we will explore the beauty of a variety of marks, stitches and textures made by hand and what they can symbolize and express. Using primarily black, white and browns we will use additive, subtractive and repetitive processes to give surfaces depth and
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