ABOUT THIS EVENT

Event Category

Arts & DIY

Event Overview

In Art Journaling 102, you will turn trash into treasure as you paint, stamp, ink, and glue discarded mailers, magazines, and envelopes.  “Junk Mail” becomes the base where artists can communicate feelings and ideas, either to share with others or to keep to oneself.

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 102 with the beginnings of a junk mail art journal and hopefully some inspiration to continue the project on their own.

Caryn Patterson is an artist and art teacher who has taught art for 18 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 special ephemera/photographs/etc if they have an idea for a page, special stamps...but really they don't need to bring anything but inspiration.

Minimum age

All ages welcome

What's Provided

We will provide the books, inks, papers, glue, stamps, ephemera.

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