Our program is designed to accommodate your needs whether it be to rejuvenate, reconnect with your creativity, or explore new dimensions to your creative process.... Caddo Lake inspires all of the with its unspoiled beauty, a place like no other. Our days here look like this:
Day 1 Evening Cocktail Reception at the Tittle House
Day 2 Excercise/Breakfast, Art Making, Lunch, Art Making, Boat Tour, No Host Restaurant
Day 2 Excercise/Breakfast, Art Making, Lunch, Art Making, Dinner, Storytellers' Circle
Day 3 Excercise/Breakfast, Jefferson Field Trip, No Host Lunch, Art Making, Dinner
In this workshop students will view nature as a visual metaphor through the camera lens and manipulation of natural materials. It will be taught in three components: (1) Wild Child Adornment, a jewelry making project with freshwater pearls and/or shells; (2) Creating and photographing Earth Interventions outside on the grounds, such as mandalas, cairns or assemblages; and (3) Creating and photographing Imagining Gardens, black sand-filled trays with arrangements of natural objects that illustrate a personal journey into the wilderness.
In this class students learn techniques for creating luscious watercolor renderings of images and moods inspired by Caddo Lake. Perhaps they could work on different substrates (paper, gessoed or raw fabric) and sizes. Finished work will go into a folded portfolio provided to each student. Test work and paint swatches can be recycled into Workshop 3.
Students will use a range of mixed media techniques — image transfers, mark making, stitching, stencils, plaster and photos of themselves as children — to create collage materials. They will use these, plus found nature objects, to construct a book, scroll, or wall hanging that unravels their own story.
The registration fee includes a private boat tour of the lake. A no-host dinner after the boat tour could be done at Big Pines Lodge or River Bend Restaurant, both establishments are located in Karnack. A morning visit to Jefferson could include antiquing, a lecture by the Historical Society, and a no-host lunch at the historic Excelsior House Hotel.
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