**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**

Learn the fundamentals of art-making and discover how to see as an artist. Create with a variety of painting and drawing media and explore new techniques to enhance your artistic skills!

When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.

Learn the Japanese way of marbling paper and binding books. Start with Sumingashi, a form of Japanese paper marbling, then transform the papers created into covers for two books students will bind in a Japanese stab-binding style.

***Two Day Workshop meets Saturday, May 30th and Sunday, May 31st***

Learn linocut printing techniques. Monochromatic printing from single blocks, color printing from multiple blocks, and reduction techniques will be covered. Advantages of different printmaking papers as well as water-based inks will be discussed, demonstrated and used. Subject matter can be either figurative or abstract.