Heart Letters: a mixed-media experience

Service Description

Fridays, May 2, 9, 16, 30 (skipping Memorial Day weekend) 1-4 pm Cost: $60 There is a $20 materials fee due at the first class. If this is a stretch, please pay what you can. Through the experience of working with a variety of media and modalities, this class is about exploring who you are as a creator and falling in love with the magic of your own creative joy. We’ll start with meeting our inner artist - and everyone has one, even if you’re not acquainted yet! We’ll be playing with a wide range of materials and techniques out of Jackie and Lianna’s years of creative experience. In the process, you’ll be gathering your explorations into whatever form calls to you – it could be a journal, shrine, scroll, concertina, altered book, or something entirely different. On a deeper level, you’ll be learning more about what brings you joy and how to work with your inner gifts and potentials to express that joy and aliveness. At the end, it will be like having a collection of love letters to and from yourself –honoring the wholeness of your life experiences. Jackie Amatucci has been a mixed media artist for over 10 years. She also is a potter, jewelry maker, basket maker and seamstress. She loves sharing her skills and delights in supporting others to make their own masterpieces. Jackie is co-founder of Create Space Langley. As a high school teacher for 30 years, her love of teaching and learning has never waned. Jackie was a teaching artist at Power of Hope Teen Camps for many years. She currently is a mentor and teaching artist for Seattle-based Young Women Empowered. She regularly taught sewing, mixed media art, and jewelry making at Create Space Langley prior to the covid shut down. Lianna Gilman is a free-style weaver and fiber artist with an adventurous mixed-media spirit. She found her inner artist when she traded in perfection for curiosity and adopted the free-style approach of “no right, no wrong, no mistakes.” Visit www.heartsong-weaving.com for more about her fiber arts.