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Doodle, Draw, Daydream and Discover : Lynda Barry’s Syllabus(multi-session) taught by Tara Tieso
May 30, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Meets via Zoom on 6 Fridays, May 30-July 4 from10am-12pm Central TimeVIRTUAL CLASS
Doodle, Draw, Daydream and Discover with Prompts Galore from Lynda Barry’s Syllabus!
Ever wished you could draw, doodle, or tell stories without that annoying voice in your head saying, “But I cannot even draw much less tell a story!” Well, guess what? You totally can — and MacArthur Genius Award winner Lynda Barry is here to prove it. In this six-week class, we’ll dive into Barry’s brilliant, playful, and slightly chaotic book Syllabus, a treasure trove of easy, fun exercises, prompts, and hand-drawn wisdom inspired by her legendary college courses. We’ll fill sketchbooks with super simple drawings, helpful prompts, and deceptively easy snack-sized projects designed to unlock creativity at its source — your memories, your imagination, and the weird, wonderful way your brain works. Expect lively little quick doodles and drawings (yup, even if you “can’t draw”), quirky constraints that make creativity easier, and an open-ended, no-wrong-answers approach to telling a mini story or two – real or imagined! No pressure, no perfection — just fun, exploration, and a little bit of creative mischief. Come doodle, daydream, and discover what happens when you stop overthinking and start playing!
Materials:
A composition style book or a legal pad with a cover. A few favorite tools+supplies that you have on hand for writing/mark-making and coloring, collage bits, washi tape, stencils, a simple folder or envelope they can tape in the back of your composition book for collecting little things – treasures to add to your book (think receipts, postage stamps, interesting bits from your snail mail, post-its, things you print, drawings, stickers, etc.).
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.
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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.
