Collage Garage

INSTRUCTOR: Graham Moore & Jim Wojtowicz

Course Fee: $85

Class Length: Half-day (4 hrs)

Unlock the full potential of your artistic journey as you dive into the world of collage. Take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your mark-making skills with confidence, delve into advanced composition awareness, and push the boundaries of your creativity with intensified artistic risk-taking. Join us for a single session, or make it a “series” by coming back time and again. With each sequential workshop, you'll cultivate a deeper understanding of the collage process, unlocking new dimensions of creativity and expression. Don't miss out on this opportunity to elevate your craft and fuel your passion for self expression. All materials provided. All levels welcome.

Plants to Paper:
Paper Making with Natural Fibers

INSTRUCTOR: Judi Tentor

Course Fee: $135

Class Length: Multi-Day (8 hrs)

Explore the infinite possibilities of embedding, coloring, and lamination in this hands-on introduction to the basic techniques of western paper making! Students will engage in paper making practices as they learn how to form sheets with moulds and deckles, pulp painting/pouring, and embedding materials such as flower petals, leaves, and fibers.

Over the course of two days, students will work with various plant fibers suitable for paper making, including cotton, hemp, and abaca as well as recycled materials. The workshop will include discussion, instructor demonstrations, and in-class guided student work.

Paper Marbling

INSTRUCTOR: Erin Pieronek

Course Fee: $135

Class Length: Full-day (6 hrs)

Explore the mystery and magic that is traditional Turkish marbling, using a thickened bath and acrylic paint to create one-of-a-kind prints. Using handmade tools, you will be taught to throw paint and create basic patterns. By the end of the workshop, you'll be ready to produce classic patterns and explore new shapes and patterns by floating your paint on the water bath. Learn to create mesmerizing papers that can be used for bookbinding, collage, card making, decor and more. All materials provided. All experience levels welcome.

The Book Artist as Naturalist

INSTRUCTOR: Rebecca Chamlee

Course Fee: $275

Class Length: Multi-Day (13.5 hrs)

This multi-disciplinary workshop explores the botanical contact printing process (eco-printing) to create images on paper with fresh and pressed plant materials provided by the instructor and collected by students.

On the first day , students will learn botanical contact printing immersion techniques using dye baths on assorted paper and several nature printing techniques that don’t require a press. On the second day, the results will be used to create four books –- two non-adhesive no-sew structures, a multiple signature pamphlet, and a hybrid structure based on the accordion with pockets and sewn in signatures – all filled with rich visual content. Students will receive comprehensive handouts for all the book structures and nature printing techniques.

This workshop is perfect for artists, designers, painters, printmakers, book artists and non-artists with interest making books and in the natural world. Knowledge of basic book binding is helpful, but not mandatory.