Instructor: Cat Orlando
Transform old books into unique works of art by turning their pages into a canvas for self-expression. Explore mixed media techniques including collage, painting, cutting, folding, stamping, layering, and journaling.
Instructor: Nīa MacKnight (Anishinaabe/Lakhóta/Scottish) This class will explore visual narrative techniques through alternative, experimental photography processes while drawing inspiration from the local ecologies of Idyllwild.
Instructor: James Johnson (Tlingit) This workshop will introduce you to and get you started on your journey to make a Northwest Coast inspired rowing paddle utilizing methods, techniques and philosophies rooted in Tlingit culture. This intensive learning experience will highlight wood carving techniques and Northwest Coast line-drawing traditions.
Instructors: Tom Laichas & Lynne Thompson In this week-long workshop, Tom Laichas will teach the first half and Lynne Thompson will teach the second half! Laichas’s 'Poetry and the Prince' will explore how poetry responds to corruption and power by examining diverse political forms from satire to lament, drawing on global poetic traditions. Thompson’s 'Wordplay and Other Roads to Verse-City' will then focus on craft and play, using a variety of forms including prose poems, glosas, centos, and forms of her own creation to discover new approaches to writing.
