Sat, Oct 21International Printing MuseumOct 21, 10:00 AM PDT – Oct 22, 4:00 PM PDTInternational Printing Museum, 315 W Torrance Blvd, Carson, CA 90745, USAJoin me at the International Printing Museum for the best of letterpress, book arts, and paper goods. Visit the world’s largest collection of working antique presses together with 80 artistic vendors in Carson, CA.
Fri, Nov 24Santa Clara Convention CenterNov 24, 11:00 AM PST – Nov 25, 7:00 PM PSTSanta Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USAJoin me for San José Craft Holiday Fair–the largest winter holiday craft fair in the South Bay Area. Featuring over 425+ amazing makers, artists, designers, curators, workshop guides, food producers, and creative small business owners- including Lacelit! Stop by to shop my full paper goods line.
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Filling Your Cup: A Gentle
Exploration of Creativi-tea
Together with my friend, Zen Alladina, a trained tea sommelier, arts facilitator, and published poet, we'll amble through a series of prompts to explore creativity through the way we experience tea (brew/steep, pour, sip/savor). All creative mediums are welcome and admission includes a printable coloring sheet to accompany.
Zen and I are already dreaming up another session of our cozy, virtual guided creative retreat.
Layered Stories: Virtual Reality Art
Gallery Tour + Creative Workshop
A delightfully immersive experience hosted in a virtual reality gallery space where we’ll be able to move around in avatar form from the comfort of our computer screens at home (kind of like being in a video game!).
Akin to meandering through an art museum, Kimberly Kuniko & Mira Musank, a textiles and upcyling artist, will be your guides as we amble through different sections of the gallery, pausing to engage with and observe a variety of 3D textiles, wearable art, and repurposed paper collage, each paired with a prompt to inspire your own creative explorations in whatever medium you wish.
When Mira created her textile art gallery for The Study in Artivism virtual reality exhibit last year and invited me to share one of my paper collages in the space, she shared that in collaborating, we were “layering our stories together”. This poetic turn of phrase has stuck with me ever since. This retreat explores how as creatives, we are constantly layering things together to tell a story. From disparate materials, colors, textures, words, sounds, memories, and our own imaginations, we weave things together to express something in a new form. All creative mediums welcome.
Hand-Stitched Paper Collage
Dates/Times TBD
Live via Zoom
Explore adding extra texture and dimension to collage by hand-stitching in paper. We'll practice several different types, play with creating different shapes with thread, and I'll share my tips on stitching in paper to avoid damaging paper materials.
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Freehand Watercolor Patterns, Part I
Dates/Times TBD
Live via Zoom
Learn the basics of choosing a complementary color palette, using negative and positive space, and grouping elements in various ways for visual interest. We will practice 4 different types of freehand patterns and explore the loveliness of imperfect symmetry.
Freehand Watercolor Patterns, Part II: Deep Dive Series
Dates/Times TBD
Live via Zoom
PATTERN PLAY DEEP DIVE - $100
4 sessions spread over 4 weeks
A workshops series for folks who've already taken my introductory Freehand Watercolor Patterns workshop and are looking to delve further into the 4 pattern types we covered. Each session will be devoted to one of the 4 pattern types, experimenting with different shapes and colors each time as well as exploring various aspects of pattern design such as mood, theme, and cohesion. I'll be painting alongside the group, offering tips and tricks, and providing 1:1 feedback.
PATTERN PLAY DEEP DIVE + TECH TUTORIAL - $125
5 sessions spread over 5 weeks
This option includes the above Pattern Play sessions + a fifth session add-on, which covers technical aspects of preparing scanned artwork to be used for various types of surface design (scanning, editing in Photoshop, and rendering files for high print quality).
Hand Lettering with Art Pens, Part II:
Letterology Deep Dive Series
Dates/Times TBD
Live via Zoom
LETTEROLOGY DEEP DIVE - $100
4 sessions spread over 4 weeks
This workshop series is for folks who've already taken my introductory Hand Lettering with Art Pens workshop and are looking to delve further into the lettering techniques we covered. We'll spend each session devoting time to practicing specific lettering types. During each session, I'll be lettering alongside the group, offering tips and tricks, and providing 1:1 feedback.
LETTEROLOGY DEEP DIVE + DIGITIZING - $140
5 sessions spread over 5 weeks
This option includes the 4 Letterology sessions above + a longer fifth session add-on, which covers technical aspects of preparing hand lettering for print and digital use (scanning, editing in Photoshop, vectorizing, and rendering files for high print quality).