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Collage Your He♥️rt Out! taught by Tara Tieso
November 1, 2024 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
VIRTUAL CLASS Central Time
It’s been a long election season already and for many of us, thoughts may be chaotic and feelings jumbled. Let’s collage – channel those big feelings, manage stress, and compost election 2024 (or anything else you need to express) into some fresh and fun visual art!
We’ll experiment with various collage techniques and formats – including protest art, abstract images, color field creations and even poetry!
Experienced artists or curious beginners – Collage Your Heart Out is designed to empower with tools to turn stress into artistic action, and find a little calm in the maelstrom too.
Whether you’re feeling fired up or frazzled, together we’ll funnel our stress into something beautiful and cathartic through the convivial conveyance of collage!
Materials
•Any favorite mixed media supplies you might have on hand – glue stick, scissors, paint, markers, crayons, pens, paper scraps , fabric scraps, images or photos, text blocks from newspapers/magazines/recycling.
•A watercolor sketchbook, or pad of watercolor paper 8×10 or larger, or some large individual watercolor sheets
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
About the artist:
Tara L Tieso is an abstract artist who lives and paints in the historic arts Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, on the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch. Tara also works in pen and ink, and loves water soluble colors of any type.
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 on the Board of The Show Non-Profit, which brings artists of all abilities together in creative community.
As teaching artist, Tara facilitates Eagan Artist Connect, Wet Paint’s Book Club, and Creative Circles from her loft studio.
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.
