Quick Hits

Just a quick post about upcoming workshops:

  • The San Francisco Studio School will hold a weekend mixed media workshop, "The Art of Collage," July 28-29, 2012.  Go here for details.
  • The 10th anniversary of ScrapFest from Archiver's  is scheduled for the weekend of September 14-16, 2012 at the Mall of America in Minnesota.  Sign up for crops begins on July 25th.  Registration for workshops begins August 1st.  Create-It workshops will be from October Afternoon, Jillibean Soup, Fancy Pants Designs, and other well-know scrapbooking companies.  Like the mall itself, this event will be huge.  Over 50 popular scrapbooking and stamping companies will be represented at ScrapFest, including Hampton Art, Basic Grey, and 7 Gypsies.  Go here for details.
  •  Fiber artist Wen Redmond will offer three workshops for the York Art Association in York, Maine.  The workshops are scheduled for August 20-22, 2012. Register online here.  The workshops are Thermal Fax Screens, Holographic Memories, and Stalking the Wild Prints.   For more information on Wen Redmond, visit her blog.  As a side note, I would love to take Ms. Redmond's Stalking the Wild Prints workshop.  Before I ever started stamping, my first venture into paper arts was making leaf prints using acrylic paints and water colors.  I'd read an article in Sunset magazine, and I was hooked.  Alas, this year the leaves are too dry and fragile to use for printing.  I would love to get back to making prints from natural objects again. 

 

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