Shaping the Page

Founders Hall Studio 120 W 3rd Avenue, Grand Marais, MN, United States

Poetry is always a shape on the page. Whether it is a rectangular prose box, a series of couplets, or a continuous descent of lines of varying lengths, the effect […]

Is it Memoir or Fiction? Harnessing Life Experience to Craft the Story You Have to Tell

Studio 17 17 W Highway 61, Grand Marais, MN, United States

Know what to write but can’t get what’s on the page to pack the punch it did when it happened? Learn guidelines needed to best shape life experience through your writing. Discover how to harness genre to more effectively frame your narrative, hook readers at the opening, and deliver a powerful ending. We’ll explore real-life […]

Watercolor and Soft Pastel Mixed Media Workshop

Founders Hall Studio 120 W 3rd Avenue, Grand Marais, MN, United States

Watercolor and pastel have long individual histories in visual art as media favored by artists to work through ideas with color in a more immediate/direct manner than oil, fresco, encaustic, […]

Oil Painting: Concept to Execution

Founders Hall Studio 120 W 3rd Avenue, Grand Marais, MN, United States

A successful painting starts before paint is ever applied to the canvas, with a solid concept. We will look at this part of the process by exploring what other artists […]

Art Journaling Re-invented

Founders Hall Studio 120 W 3rd Avenue, Grand Marais, MN, United States

Rehab an old book by transforming it into a personal piece of art. Supported by instructor prompts, students will build foundation pages; create permissions to self and write a creative […]

Spontaneous Process Painting

Founders Hall Studio 120 W 3rd Avenue, Grand Marais, MN, United States

Supported by writing prompts and instructor guidance, students will discover how creating mixed-media work on one surface reflects their life experience, wisdom, desire, joy, resistance, and their own visual voice. […]

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