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Keeping a Commonplace Book: Gather, Remember, Keep (Multi-Session) taught by Tara Tieso
August 1, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
4 Fridays August 1-22 from 10am-12pm CTVIRTUAL CLASS
Commonplace books are like an idea management app that we instead create with our curiosity, our creativity, and our favorite art materials. Less a diary and more a repository, they have been kept from antiquity, particularly during the Renaissance and 19th century. Whether focused on a single theme, or filled with items of every kind: quotes, letters, poems, tables, recipes, proverbs, lyrics, locations, special knowledge, memories, lists, or anything you can dream up – they include details we want to remember, and notes about why.
Commonplace books are kept by readers, writers, observers, and anyone who is interested in keeping something creative to look back on, to gather knowledge in, and draw ideas from – organized in a way that is uniquely yours.
Love to draw, collage or paint? Your passion fits right in; however, no art experience is necessary to dive into this satisfying practice. Your ideas and interests are the heart of the Commonplace Book
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
Include some supplies. Choose ticket for supplies shipped or picked up. Please register by noon on Friday, July 25 to guarantee shipped items arrive in time for the first session.
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.
