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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: An Art Exchange Class (Multi-Session)taught by Tara Tieso
May 22 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Via Zoom 4 Fridays May 22-June 12 from 10am-12pm Central TimeVIRTUAL CLASS
Inspired by Jason Polan: The Post Office, this class celebrates the joy of sending art out into the world — quickly, intuitively, and with genuine human connection.
Over four weeks, we’ll create small, imperfect, heartfelt artworks designed to be exchanged with each other and, if you choose, with people outside the class. Think postcards, unexpected mail, tiny folded surprises, “found” drawings slipped into books, and little works that feel like they want to be sent somewhere.
We’ll take Polan’s spirit of immediacy — quick drawings, observational sketches, everyday marks — and pair it with your signature teaching style: playful, low-pressure, creative, reflective, and community-centered. By the end, you’ll not only have a stack of joyful little artworks but also a handful of new creative connections.
This class is for anyone who wants to loosen up, draw more freely, connect with others, and rediscover the small delight of real physical mail.
Supplies list:
- Postcards or cardstock cut to 4×6
- Mixed media paper (any size you can cut down)
- Pens, markers, or any drawing tool
- Any color medium – watercolors, inks markers, colored pencil, gel pens (Tara likes Vivia Color Sheets for their vibrancy and portability).
- Glue stick + collage scraps
- Scissors
- Envelopes (various sizes – used envelopes are great!)
- Washi tape or masking tape
- Stamps (old postal or hand-carved (optional))
- Stickers, labels, or rubber stamps (optional)
- Postage stamps and envelopes – for mailing non-postcard art
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
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.
