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Our new workshop series rooted in creativity, community and working with our hands. Each workshop will be led by artists we love, set in a beautiful open studio on the south end of Salt Spring Island. We're so excited to expand our offering beyond the shop and design and dig into something even more tactile with you.
First up is a two day creative inquiry study with artists Stefanie Denz and Cliff Thorbes. We will explore nature based arts, mixed media, making a mess, drawing and creative movement.
The flow of our days
Day 1
9 am - noon
Introduction in a circle. Stef and Cliff (movement exercise)
Morning activity with Cliff (nature walk on the property, making cordage using natural materials, and then including the cordage made into a small woven object)
Tea/coffee/snacks break when needed.
Noon - 12:30 1/2 hour lunch
12:30 - 4
Afternoon activity with Stefanie (Pushing a pebble and exploring art materials, super doll)
Tea/coffee/snacks break when needed.
3:45 Closing Stef and Cliff
4pm Finish
Day 2
9 am - noon
Check -in in a circle. Stef and Cliff (movement exercise)
Morning activity with Cliff
(poetry in the garden, followed by paper manipulation activity and decoration)
Tea/coffee/snacks break when needed.
Noon - 12:30 1/2 hour lunch
12:30 - 4
Afternoon activity with Stefanie
(stick and ink drawing, personal garden mandala, bilateral interoceptive drawing)
Tea/coffee/snacks break when needed.
3:45 Closing Stef and Cliffs
4pm Finish
Dates: Aug 20 & 21
9am-4pm
Price: $450
This is the perfect class for anyone looking to build foundational skills you can pull from to get out of your head and into your body. Think more connecting with yourself and less making the perfect piece.
Location: Salt Spring Island. Details to be provided to attendees.
Materials, snacks and drinks provided.
Stefanie Denz is an artist, educator and art therapist. She lives and maintains her studio practice on Saltspring Island and works in a treatment centre in Saanich BC.
Cliff Thorbes lives in Sidney, British Columbia. He is a Registered Horticultural Therapist, Certified Career Development Practitioner®, and Expressive Artist.
We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we live, and work is with the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ People on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, and the unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples.