SAA Workshops
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Book Making ClassInstructor: Patt Causey |
Spend a relaxing day with friends making books with a beautiful piano-hinge binding. Make your own handcrafted book and slipcase, perfectly suitable as a holiday gift, from special papers and unusual materials. This lovely book has a woven binding that is challenging, fun, and different.
For a creative day in Lake Shastina, bring your imagination, lunch, scissors and glue. If you have them, bring a self-healing cutting board, special fibers, and colored envelopes. All other materials will be provided.
For more information, contact Jewel DeMoss. The registration deadline is November 1.
3-D Papermaking
Instructor: Patt Causey
Dates: Saturday, October 18, and Saturday, October 25
Fee (including $15 materials fee): $75 for SAA members and $95 for non-members
Build with your own handmade paper. In this sculptural class, you will make a mold and deckle to form sheets of paper. You will also use pulps to do 3-D "casting" to make vessels and objects that will be embellished on the second Saturday.
Bring your lunch, and be sure to wear comfortable clothing. We will be working outdoors.
Materials:
- Towel
- Old sheet or large cloth
- Paper towels
- Sturdy scissors
- Wire cutters
- Old (think yard sale) baskets
- Bowls, jelly molds, platter (shapes you would love to make in paper)
- Embellishments like beads, copper wire, string, thread, or shells to give your vessels personality
For more information, contact Joy Price.
Plein-Air Painting Workshop
The haze of smoke from Northern California wildfires did not stop our Siskiyou painters from a plein-air workshop on Wednesday, July 2, led by Jolene Biss. A dozen painters came out for a very productive day (see plein-air paintings below). Thanks Jolene!
Wire Sculpture Workshop
On May 31, 2008, Mary Carpelan shared her decades of weaving experience, originally learned from her grandmother, at the Lake Shastina Community Center. Mary showed a broad variety of weaving materials and then demonstrated techniques for weaving sculptures with wire, such as her dragon sculpture shown above. Workshop participants used wire to produce flora and fauna, including flowers, butterflies, a praying mantis, spiders, a bat, and a dog. Thank you Mary!
Making a Travel Log or Sketch Book
Instructor: Chris Messer. Details to be announced. Contact Diana Wood.
Organize a Workshop
Members are encouraged to volunteer as a workshop organizer. If you have a favorite local artist who would be willing to teach a technique to our members, you can organize the event and attend it for half the fee (except for the cost of materials). For more information on how to organize a workshop, contact Roberta or Suzanne.