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New Classes for 2023

Look for a Week-long intensive in August, 2023

(more information to follow)

 Wild Journals

Workshop Series



Many of us keep journals to gain insight into our lives or to mark events that have particular meaning.  Others like to keep travel journals or make small books to commemorate special passages in our lives. Whether you write everyday or just occasionally, if you love keeping journals, this is a fun series of six workshops that will help you take your journals to a whole new level.

Each week we’ll explore new techniques and inspirational materials while we play with color, texture, pattern, and form. We’ll paint, print, stamp, cut, tear, fold, and collage your pages into intricate multi-layered surfaces, making each page a one-of-a-kind ‘canvas’ for your words, images, drawings, or photos. Stimulate your creativity and launch your journals onto a whole new path. Open to all skill levels.   Limited to 8 participants



Wild Journals Revival

These day-long open studios are for people who have already completed a Wild Journals Workshop Series, Weekend, or Summer Intensive. Join us to work on new or unfinished projects, get some inspiration and new ideas, or explore new techniques in the company of fellow artists.

 Pop-Up Travel Journals 

Do you have a box full of photos, wrappers, tickets and other ephemera from your last trip or family vacation that you don’t know what to do with??? Join me for this fun day-long workshop to get started putting your vacation or travel mementos into a fabulous form that you'll love to use for this and other books.  

Using origami-folds and a simple assembly this book begins as a simple square but opens into adramatic, multifaceted container for your travel treasures.  You can add pockets, flaps, windows and pop-outs, and make it beautiful with hand-printmaking techniques, collage, cutting, painting, drawing and text.  Open to all skill levels. Limited to 8 participants

For more questions or more information about any of the above workshops , please contact me at susaneporter33@yahoo.com.  

Wild Journals Weekends

Join me for this fun weekend to help you create your own amazing Wild Journal. In this two-day workshop we'll explore a wide variety of techniques for creating colorful and meaningful art journals for your writing, for a gift, or for just to have a beautiful book to inspire you.

On Day-1 we'll start by using printing and transfer techniques to create intricate layered backgrounds for writing, collage, drawing, or for holding your collection of special treasures. Then on Day-2 we'll cut, fold, add extensions, fold-outs, pop-outs, windows, and explore other techniques for completing your one-of-a-kind journal. Open to all skill levels. Limited to 8 participants

   Celebration    Accordion Books

 In this day-long workshop, create a beautiful multi-layered accordion book for yourself, or as a special gift for a friend or family member. This adaptable form allows you to make a festive book packed full of surprises — words, letters, tiny booklets, pockets, charms, photos, windows, and other ingredients that give meaning to your theme.

Decide on your concept and palette, then dive into a wealth of materials to build your book with paint, paper, thread, buttons, beads, and whatever else we can find to bring it to life. You’ll leave with a dramatic one-of-a-kind piece, and the knowledge to use this form again and again to create more books for yourself and others. Open to all skill levels. Limited to 8 participants



 Printmaking for Creative Collage

Spend a fun day learning a variety of experimental hand-printmaking techniques and then turn some of your prints into collages for exhibit pieces, greeting cards, gifts, or simply for the joy of making art. In the morning we’ll work with wood blocks, linocuts, monotypes, gelatin plates, stencils, stamps, and found materials to make a series of water-based prints, then we’ll spend the afternoon using some of your prints to create a series of free form collages to take home at the end of the day. Open to all skill levels. Limited to 8 participants