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HEADS UP, IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR ARTUNRAVELED

There's still time to register for ArtUnraveled (July 30-August 7) in Phoenix, Arizona. I'm working on kits for the class I'll be teaching," Hello, Dollies." It's a laid back evening class for making dolls (paper dolls, spirit dolls, word people, and pins) for weary art retreaters. As part of the kits, I'm providing a variety of doll heads/faces. I want to make sure people have choices, so I'm making a lot.

ART UNRAVELED 2012

I forgot to post a class description and picture for my "Hello Dollies" class at Art Unraveled (Monday night 6:30 t0 9:30, August 6) in my previous post. So, here is the class description

Hello, Dollies

student level: all levels

Project workshop: students will leave with dolls they made in class.

Dolls have been with us forever, giving comfort, sparking our imagination, and pleasing our aesthetics. This is a class designed to explore traditional and not-traditional dolls, to sit down and make one or several dolls designed by you. I will provide materials and instructions for you to make paper dolls, flat fabric dolls and spirit dolls. Take some time to relax and create at your own pace. You can make paper dolls with traditional jointed arms and legs from scratch; use selected cabinet cards to make dolls to use as hangings; make coat pins or embellishments from fabric scraps and polymer faces; and/or make spirit dolls out of twigs and ribbons.

A kit fee of $5 covers class supplies of art papers, doll templates, brads and eyelets, jump rings, fabric scraps, polymer faces, embellishments (beads buttons, sparklies, pinbacks), glue, cabinet card images, heavy cardstock, magazine images, markers, sheets of snappy sayings, wire, twigs and found objects. 

Supplies to be brought by students: scissors, pencil, any personal embellishments that you may want to use.

 

 

ART UNRAVELED REGEISTRATION IS OPEN

Art Unraveled  July 30 - August 7

Embassy Suites, Phoenix-Scottsdale location

A fabulous list of internationally known teaching artists, some returning, some new to AU - many teaching workshops you haven't seen on the schedule anywhere else. (Can't get time off work? Join us for an evening!)

10th Anniversary Celebration Discount

In celebration of our 10th anniversary, if your registration is

• received prior to March 15th and
• workshop fees total $250 or more

receive a 10% discount from the total of your workshop fees*.

* Only workshop fees are discountable and must total $250 or more to be eligible for the discount.

Click here to see all the great things planned for this year's Art Unraveled. There are lots of great classes to register for (I'd love to see you in the class I'm teaching, "Hello Dollies" on Monday, August 6 , 6:30 to 9:30 pm); I'd love to see you in one of the classes I'm taking. ArtUnraveled is one of the highlights of my year.

 

SPIRIT DOLLS