Workshop Archives | Creative Arts Workshop

Drawing + Painting

The Power of Comics, Collage, and Storytelling

Amira Brown

Intermediate + Advanced

How do creatives tell their stories? How will you tell yours? Using painting, drawing, and collage practices students will explore visual communication and develop their own individual comic style, self-expression, and cultural identity. In her own artistic practice, new instructor, Amira Brown, “[captures] the ambiguities of life–furthering the representational ideals of diversity and moving into unresolved and imaginative aspects of Blackness.” This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.

Term: Spring 2021

Suggested Ages: 16+

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Fiber Arts

Diagonal Weave aka Twill Structure

Jill Staubitz

All Levels

Learn the basics about twill weaving structure which is characterized by going over and under multiple warps (the vertical yarns) and then shifting that pattern in the next row creating a diagonal line across the surface of your weaving. Understanding the basics of four shaft twills is a great place for newer weavers to explore beyond plain weave. A simple four shaft twill can be very exciting, offering many variations with which to experiment. Even experienced weavers can benefit from reviewing multiple variations of four shaft twills. A twill draft will be provided to students so they can create a twill gamp (weaving sampler) on their own after class. It can serve as a great reference for their weaving library, as well as an artful wall hanging. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.

Term: Spring 2021

Suggested Ages: 18+

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