July 20 Scrap Bin Collage Book

Sunday, July 20, 2-5pm
Location: 2313 Beatrice St. Suite #100
Instructor: Lisa Huffaker

Every artist knows that frustrating feeling of hitting a creative wall, but in this joyful workshop, we’ll laugh in the face of judgment and limitation, combining bookmaking, collage, and mark making to breathe surprise and new life into our creative practice. We’ll put delight back in the driver’s seat, ditching “the rules” in favor of spontaneity and flow.

We’ll start with the (literal) scrap bin, combining discarded art experiments and leftover papers with carefully chosen ephemera, including old postage stamps, handmade papers, and pages torn from vintage books. Mixing the precious and the one-of-a-kind with actual trash, we’ll use classic techniques to bind the most unlikely combinations into book form. Then we’ll use experimental drawing and collage techniques to turn each page spread into finished art.

You decide how to show up: you’re welcome to bring things – papers to share, a sketchbook page or two, or some “failed” art to repurpose. Or maybe you’d like to come as empty handed as possible, just to discover how much possibility you carry within yourself, even on the most ordinary day. Either way, please join us as we reset our sense of wonder and inspiration. You will walk away with a colorful book you couldn’t have imagined you were about to create, as well as an arsenal of clever tricks to play on your muse whenever inspiration seems to be hiding.

INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Lisa Huffaker creates poetry, collage, assemblage, artist’s books, and many combinations of these. Her poetry appears in Pleiades, Diode, 32 Poems, Michigan Quarterly Review, CTRL+V, DIAGRAM, Cincinnati Review, THRUSH, Phoebe, and other journals. She was recently a finalist for Dallas Poet Laureate, and leads community writing projects as Teaching Artist in Residence at the Writer’s Garret. Her work as a teaching artist brings her to the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and The Dallas Contemporary. Her assemblages have recently been exhibited at Ro2 Art and Bath House Cultural Center. She is currently working on a book of visual poetry, transforming a women’s "self help" book from 1963 through collage and poetic erasure. 65 pieces from the project have been published so far, and the manuscript-in-progress was exhibited internationally as part of TU Delft and Cornell Tech’s 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation. She comes from a background of classical singing; she holds a Master’s degree in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory, and sings with The Dallas Opera.

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