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Explode Your Sketchbook w/ The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait taught by Tara Tieso (Multi-Session)
July 10 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Multi-Session Class
Via Zoom on 3 Fridays July 10-24 from 10-12:30pmVIRTUAL CLASS
Frida Kahlo’s iconic artwork is immediately identifiable – brightly colored, direct, strong.
But did you know she kept a book over the last 10 years of her life, 1944-54, that is at once a sketchbook, a diary, a commonplace book, and a trusted companion that does not look so much like her public work? It is as vibrant as we might expect, but it is also so much more – of everything.
If you are struggling with how or why to keep a sketchbook, Kahlo’s volume will explode your ideas of what’s possible!
We’ll spend time with the book, our own sketchbooks, and find our personal inspirations to explode our sketchbooks wide open!
Filled with beautiful self-portraits, personal writing, swathes of color, passionate scribbles, and wild doodles, this is a captivating book of Kahlo’s process, thoughts, poems, snippets of life and things to remember. This peek into one artist‘s open, creative approach gives us the sense that anything is possible.
No drawing, sketching, journaling or painting experience required!
Your materials list for Explode Your Sketchbook Class:
-Sketchbook that opens flat – ideally multimedia (but not crucial)
-Waterproof drawing pen
-Any materials you have used in your sketchbook
but more important:
Simply to bring a few of those art supplies you may have tucked away for “someday.” Maybe it’s something you’ve been saving until you “master” a certain medium, start a brand-new project, or feel ready enough to use the “good stuff.” It might be a new sketchbook, a fancy fountain pen, an unopened set of pastels, a beautiful paper, or anything else you’ve been waiting to use. This class is the perfect time to let those materials come out and play!
And please know: there is absolutely no need to buy anything fancy. Use what you already have, and bring what feels fun, interesting, or just a little bit special. Looking forward to seeing you in class!
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.
