The Artist Series – Growing a Visual Language: More Sketchbook Explorations with Hilma af Klint taught by Tara Tieso (Multi-Session)
September 4 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Via Zoom on 4 Fridays, September 4-25 from 10am-12pm Central TimeVIRTUAL CLASS
Following our exploration of Notes and Methods, we now turn to one of Hilma af Klint’s most fascinating bodies of work—The Tree of Knowledge.
Throughout this four-week sketchbook class we’ll continue exploring af Klint’s remarkable ability to transform simple marks, color, symbols, diagrams, and natural forms into deeply personal visual investigations.
Rather than attempting to imitate her paintings, we’ll use them as invitations—experimenting with our own evolving visual language through playful sketchbook exercises, reflective writing, discussion, and creative exploration.
Together we’ll consider questions like:
- How does a personal visual vocabulary develop?
- What symbols seem to return again and again in our work?
- What can nature teach us about growth and transformation?
- How might our sketchbooks become places of discovery rather than performance?
As always, no drawing experience is necessary. Curiosity is the only prerequisite.
Materials
- Non-Spiral bound sketchbook
- Waterproof drawing pen
- Color media of your choice – colored pencils, watercolor (pencils or paint), markers, crayons, 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.
