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A Creative Coddiwomple* Through Summertime with Tara Tieso (weekly series)
August 20, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
VIRTUAL CLASS Via Zoom 12-1pm Central Time
- Coddiwomple: English Slang meaning To travel purposefully towards an unknown destination possibly meandering.
Give yourself an hour of easy and fun creativity – Wednesdays at noon! Designed for grownups to ignite your imagination and help capture your unique summertime experiences.
Each session features a fresh focus(see themes below), and includes:
1. Beginning each class creating with a delightful prompt to spark imagination...and more prompts based on the week’s theme.
2. A hands-on “field experiment” that gets you outdoors (accessible for everyone at home or work)! Explore nature’s pageant even from your window.
3. A fun “artist’s date” (mini adventure) suggestion to inspire discovery during the week.
Plus, Tara will share easy ways to explore different media and a few resources for further inspiration. Join for a week or all 13 for an unforgettable summer of creative fun!
AUGUST THEMES: 8/6 Celebrate+Captivate, 8/13 Nature’s Patterns, 8/20 Water Wander, 8/27 Fauna Loves Flora
THIS WEDNESDAY NOONTIME SERIES CONTINUES!: Wednesdays September 3-24
Materials: Your favorite sketchbook(s) and art supplies. Or, try something new! New to art supplies? Suggestions will be emailed with class confirmation or visit us and our knowledgeable staff will guide you!
Classes have a limited space available and some fill quickly. Decisions about whether to cancel a class or add another session are typically made one week prior to the start of a class. If a class you are interested in is full we will have a waiting list and will contact you if a space opens up. If a class is cancelled due to low enrollment (fewer than 4 registrations) all registrations will be promptly refunded.
Ticket Instruction: You must choose a quantity to activate “get tickets”. To pay for a class registration with a Wet Paint gift card, please call 651-698-6431
Tara L. Tieso is an abstract artist residing in the historic Lowertown arts district of Saint Paul along the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch, as well as pen and ink – and loves every kind of water-soluble media! Tara is Past Board President of nationally celebrated WARM, Women’s Art Resources Minnesota – where she worked with other women in the arts to steward the rich 40-year feminist legacy of Minnesota’s brilliant women artists. She currently serves as Board Chair of The Show Non-Profit, which supports artists with disabilities. Tara brings a love of community from her experience in social work and therapy, and as a teaching artist, she facilitates Wet Paint’s Book Club (free on zoom!), Creative Circles from her loft studio, and a myriad of Wet Paint classes that require no art experience of any kind, ever! A grateful recipient of the McKnight Foundation-funded Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant; she is one of 30 ArtSage Minnesota Artists, and a winner of North Hennepin Community College Award of Excellence in Memory of Lance Kiland from the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. Her work hangs in private collections in the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota, and Philadelphia.
