Farmers Market Basket Workshop With Shannon Lucas-Westrum  

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Place: Bagley Public Library Community Room
Day 1: October 11, 2024: Friday Evening, 6-9pm, Getting to know the materials, setting up the base, a basketry slide show, and cordage making.
Day 2: October 12, 2024: Saturday, 10am-4pm, with 1/2 hr lunch break, weaving the sides, cordage making, lashing rims and creating wrapped handles. (Some handles may need to finish being wrapped at home.)
Registration: $60 per person, Ages 16 and up. Bring your own lunch and beverage.

The Farmer’s Market Basket was designed by instructor Shannon Lucas Westrum, exclusively for this workshop series. Students will have the opportunity to learn the making of a filled woven base, weaving with flat and round reed, twining, wrapping handles, and making their own accent cordage from locally harvested grasses and leaves.  

Approx dimensions - 17” long, 12” deep,basket sides are 7.5” high, with handles at 15” tall.

Instructor will provide all materials and tools necessary. Maximum enrollment is 8-10 students based on space.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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Mixed Media Portraits in Golden Open Acrylic and Prismacolor Pencil

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Instructor: Pamela Edevold
Dates: October 22, 23, and 24
(Tuesday through Thursday)
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Bagley Public Library
Cost: $100
Class size limited to 14.

Pamela Edevold will combine the techniques she taught in her Golden Open Acrylic and Prismacolor Premier workshops to create highly detailed portraits with lots of texture. Students who have not taken her previous classes are welcome and will learn the basics in the class as well as how the two mediums work together.

The class will work from an image supplied by the instructor, and students may also bring an 8x10 photo of their own to work from when finished with the class image (any type of portrait image is fine, including 3⁄4 poses or those where the eyes are not fully visible).
A supply list will be provided. Please bring your own lunch and beverages.

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Scandinavian Snowflakes with Shannon Lucas-Westrum & Jesse Westrum

Ages: Adult - Ages 14 and up
Day/Time: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Location: Bagley Public Library
Community Room
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Cost: $35
(Class Size: Minimum 6 - Maximum 16)

Weavers of all experience levels are invited to weave their own Scandinavian Snowflakes! Taught by local artists Shannon & Jesse Westrum, each person can expect to leave with 3 or more 9" snowflakes. This workshop requires hand dexterity and includes the use of sharp shears and quick-dry adhesives. The instructor will bring all tools and materials needed. Materials are included in the class fee.

Additional Info to Participants:
Kits will be available for purchase as well, if participants would like to make more at
home. 

Please note - this class does not include a written pattern. If you’d like to make more on
your own, Shannon designed a detailed YouTube video.

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Needle Felting with 
Ruth Ann Nordlund

Date: December 7, 2024
Location: Bagley Public Library
Community Room
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Cost: $35
Class Size: 10
Age: 14 and up
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Needle Felting uses special barbed needles to mat wool roving. Join us as we work on a fun beginner needle felting class where you will create a Nisse Gnome. 
 
Needle felting is a dry felting technique, which employs one or more specially designed needles to manipulate wool fibers. Artists and craftspeople who sculpt objects and embellish textiles with wool use this technique.
 
All supplies will be provided. If you have your own needles or wool, you may bring them along.

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Fun with Yupo Workshop

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Instructor: Jim Turner
Dates: March 18, 19 & 20, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Bagley Public Library
Community Room
Class Size Limited To: 8
Cost: $125
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This workshop is for anyone interested in exploring the unique characteristics of YUPO.  YUPO is a smooth inorganic (plastic) surface that accepts paint in a very different way than paper.  Because the paint sits on the surface instead of being absorbed, it flows, mixes and can give a very fluid abstract “liquid”  look to washes that can be very appealing (and frustrating, if you are trying to “control” it.)  The surface also allows colors to be more intense, giving a stained glass look that is amazing, and makes lifting easy, allowing a push-pull method of composition similar to working with opaque paints. 

This workshop is intended to give you a variety of ways to approach the unique characteristics of YUPO.  We will take advantage of the abstract, flowing ‘liquid’ look of wet in wet application and experiment with stamping, texturing, lifting and even texturing with foam rollers.  We will talk about design and how to go from the crazy accidental abstraction of YUPO to finished work.  We will also talk about “taming” YUPO to do representational work, flattening washes, graded washes etc.

Come if you are a beginner and want to have fun playing with paint, if you are an accomplished watercolorist who wants to explore a new surface, or anyone in between who wants to expand their horizons and try something new.

I turn to YUPO when I want to “play” with watercolor and just have fun.  The participant can expect to finish at least a couple completed or nearly completed paintings in the three days.

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