Collaging is the art of sticking various different materials such as photographs, pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. In this class, students will learn about the aesthetics of collage, melding the ideas of reality and fiction as the instructor guides them through the process of creating their own piece using everyday materials. 

Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to incorporate into your collage piece.

Monday, October 26
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Sogand Tabatabaei
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

WE KNOW THIS FOREST, led by artist and educator Candace Garlock, is a community-based art project that uses the metaphor of a dense, shifting forest to explore the nonlinear, often unpredictable experience of living with chronic conditions and disability. It creates space for participants to share stories, images, and reflections that honor both the difficulty and resilience found in these lived landscapes while exploring shared ecological memory and identity through collaborative woodcut and casting workshops. While the project invites people with chronic conditions and disabilities to engage, participation does not require disclosing any diagnosis, disability status, or health information unless they personally choose to share it.

This is a 6 week course and we are looking for 8 participants willing to collaborate on the carving of one shared tree woodcut and 8 individual castings of feet.

More information at the link below:
www.weknowthisforest.com

Mondays, September 14 – October 26. *No Class October 12
10 am – 1 pm

Instructor: Candace Garlock
Age: Adult (16+) 

Class schedule:

Day 1 – Introduction of the entire project, including the timeline (blogging and the book publication), brainstorming, journal drawing, cohort trust building activities.

Day 2 – Collaboratively drawing the “tree” woodcut with sharpies onto the wood panel. Woodcutting demo using traditional and power tools.

Day 3 – Carving the woodcut

Day 4 – Introduction to the feet part of the project and then plaster casting our feet. Participant homework – designing and creating the part of the sculpture base where your feet will rest.

Day 5 – Carving more of the woodcut, Reflections and possible homework on writing for the blog and book that will be published in 2029.

Day 6 – Printing the woodcut together

Collaging is the art of sticking various different materials such as photographs, pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. In this class, students will learn about the aesthetics of collage, melding the ideas of reality and fiction as the instructor guides them through the process of creating their own piece using everyday materials. 

Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to incorporate into your collage piece.

Monday, September 28
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Sogand Tabatabaei
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

Collaging is the art of sticking various different materials such as photographs, pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. In this class, students will learn about the aesthetics of collage, melding the ideas of reality and fiction as the instructor guides them through the process of creating their own piece using everyday materials. 

Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to incorporate into your collage piece.

Monday, August 31
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Sogand Tabatabaei
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

This class explores the possibilities of self-expression through charcoal, watercolor, and acrylic. Through guided introspection and creative exploration, students will work to uncover the messages they wish to communicate through their art. Along the way, the fundamentals of each medium will be introduced and reinforced as participants progress toward creating full-scale, finished works. All supplies will be provided.

Fridays, July 24 and 31
4 – 7 pm

Instructor: Ray Bacasegua Valdez
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

Take your painting practice “to the woods” with this class that blends painting and carving techniques to create unique artworks on a wooden canvas. In this beginner class, explore simple ways you can shape your art—creating negative space, texture and contouring— using a rotary tool. No previous woodworking experience required. 

Saturday, May 30
10 am – 4:30 pm

Instructor: Rebecca Eckland
Age: Adult (16+) | Beginners

Collaging is the art of sticking various different materials such as photographs, pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. In this class, students will learn about the aesthetics of collage, melding the ideas of reality and fiction as the instructor guides them through the process of creating their own piece using everyday materials. 

Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to incorporate into your collage piece.

Monday, July 20
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Sogand Tabatabaei
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

Collaging is the art of sticking various different materials such as photographs, pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. In this class, students will learn about the aesthetics of collage, melding the ideas of reality and fiction as the instructor guides them through the process of creating their own piece using everyday materials. 

Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to incorporate into your collage piece.

Saturday, June 27
10:30 am – 2:30 pm

Instructor: Sogand Tabatabaei
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

This class explores the possibilities of self-expression through charcoal, watercolor, and acrylic. Through guided introspection and creative exploration, students will work to uncover the messages they wish to communicate through their art. Along the way, the fundamentals of each medium will be introduced and reinforced as participants progress toward creating full-scale, finished works. All supplies will be provided.

Fridays, May 29 and June 5 
4 – 7 pm

Instructor: Ray Bacasegua Valdez
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

Collaging is the art of sticking various different materials such as photographs, pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. In this class, students will learn about the aesthetics of collage, melding the ideas of reality and fiction as the instructor guides them through the process of creating their own piece using everyday materials. 

Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to incorporate into your collage piece.

Monday, May 18
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Sogand Tabatabaei
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels