ABOUT THIS EVENT

Event Category

Arts & DIY

Event Overview

Do you want to go beyond the traditional book? In Art Journaling 103, you will upcycle an unwanted book into an art journal in an accordion style.  This fold-out book becomes the base where artists can use mixed media to communicate feelings and ideas, either to share with others or to keep to oneself.  Warning: your fingers will get messy. But that’s the point, right?

Fostering the expression of feeling and ideas through art has been Caryn Patterson’s life work, both in and out of the classroom.  Using both found and bought materials, artists will come away from Art Journaling 103 with an art journal they built and hopefully some inspiration to continue the project on their own.

Caryn Patterson is an artist and art teacher who has taught art for 19 years both in St. Louis Public Schools and Meramec Valley in Pacific, MO.  In addition to teaching in public school, she has worked with churches and for a time reinvented what it meant to be a direct sales representative for a stamp company.  Caryn loves to create fiber art, writing and finds her favorite work in mixed media. These works are on canvas, index cards, and in art journals.

What to Bring

Students can bring paper ephemera to add to the journal. Photos or saved mementos would add to the creation of an art journal.

Minimum age

All ages welcome

What's Provided

We will have the book spines, scrapbook paper, glue, scissors, paints and many other craft items to help create this journal.

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