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Intro to Imperfect Drawing with Lynda Barry-Inspired Prompts taught by Tara Tieso
May 17 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
IN PERSON
What if drawing were less about skill and more about just looking?
Here’s a warm, weird, welcoming invitation into the wonderfully unpolished world of regular, imperfect drawing.
Inspired by the playful genius of Lynda Barry, we’ll explore exercises and prompts that help loosen the grip of perfectionism, wake up the imagination, and coax your hand back onto the page — even if it arrives there a little awkwardly.
Together we’ll try quick draws, memory sketches, image hunts, odd observations, and other marvelous little explorations that remind us drawing is not a performance — it’s a way of noticing, remembering, wondering, and keeping company with ourselves. With lots of room for curiosity, surprise, and lines that may not be elegant but are very much alive.
No fancy supplies needed. No experience required. No goals to “get it right.” Just bring your willingness to capture this spring in your sketchbook in a fresh, friendly, fun way!
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.
