“The Core Book” workshop with Adrienne Austin
What you will need for the Mini Core Book:
- Pick a theme - Suggestions: Beach, Birthday, Christmas, Family, Nature, Vacation
- Decide if you want your book to have 4 or 5 cores. Cut 4 or 5 coordinating decorative papers 4" X 6"
- Coordinating cardstock for 4 or 5 tag inserts
- Papers for making mini envelopes, corner pockets, etc.(use odds and ends of decorative papers)
- Embellishments to fit your theme: charms, brads, buttons, ribbons, quotes, mini photos, stickers, flowers, collage materials
- Glue, glue brush, exacto knife, cutting pad, small scissors, ruler
NOTE: Adrienne will provide cores and will bind the books.
December 1st noon-2:30 pm MCS HOLIDAY PARTY
Everyone is welcome to participate in a gift exchange at the MCS Holiday Party. Bring something you have made, something artistic you have purchased, or art materials that you think a fellow collage artist would like to use. All gifts should be wrapped, and a note may be included.All participants in the exchange will draw a number, and receive a gift with that number on it.
Upcoming MCS Sunday Meetings in 2020 Save the Dates!!!
January - NO MEETING!
March 1 - noon-2:30pm "Sculpting with Paper" Carrie Ann Bronkowski, presenter
April 5th - noon-2:30pm "Process and Practice - Collage" Laura Lein-Svencner, presenter
May 3rd - noon-2:30pm "Making Original Notecards with Collage" Tania Blanco, presenter
June 7th -"Altered Canvas for Collage" Joan Lucht, presenter
July - NO MEETING
August 2nd - "Assemblage Necklace or Bracelet from Found Objects" Mary Warner, presenter
September - NO MEETING, MCS RETREAT September 23-27 Camp Alexander Mac
October 4th - "Parfait Dying Fabric for Use in Collage" Barrie Mason, presenter
November 1st - "Paste Papers" Marge Boyd, presenter
December 6th - MCS Holiday Party
MCS EXHIBITS
Ex Libris at Indian Prairie Library in Darien in February
Don't forget to finish your assemblages from our workshop with Donna Castellanos. In keeping with the theme, create a hanging piece using an old book or books. Several old Time-Life books will be available at the meeting for those who wish to have one. This is an example of an altered Time-Life book:
Future exhibits:
Between the Lines Downers Grove Library - April
Archeological Imagination Bloomingdale Park District Museum - June (Judged)
A Compendium of Curiosities Vogt Gallery - August (Judged)
Please submit title ideas for Woodridge Library - December
OTHER EXHIBITS
New Call for Entries at Tall Grass Arts Association!
SYMMETRY – The Concepts Captured in Art
March 14 – April 18, 2020
Deadline for entries is December 14, 2019
https://www.tallgrassarts.org/
Nature’s Best Cafe in Naperville is seeking artists to exhibit on their wall. One month period in 2020. Please text or email Tania Blanco if interested.
Lynne Kornecki is publisher of a new website to promote artists and their exhibits. She interviewed Tania Blanco during a tour of Tania’s studio, took photos and wrote a lovely article. She is interested in meeting and promoting other artists in the western suburbs. Please feel free to contact her.
Check out the website: www.foxvalleyartbeat.
Tania Blanco extends an Invitation to attend the reception for her exhibit, Sacred Spaces, at If These Walls Could Talk, 32 S Stolp Ave., Aurora, IL on FRIDAY NOV. 1. 7-10 PM. Refreshments will be served
Nancy Staszak will be showing a retrospective of her work at Knox College in Galesburg the first weekend of November at their Whitcomb Art Center. It will include her collages, water colors, etchings, Dinosaurs and the works!
Nancy Staszak and Eva Holy will have work in the Nature Artists' Guild show at the Morton Arboretum on November 8 and 9. Reception will be held on Friday evening, November 7. For more information:
Laura Lein -Svencner has a couple of classes available:
Collage Open Studio at Mayslake Peabody Estate, Starting Nov 11th-Dec 16th, https://apm.
eCourses available online, to do at your own pace in a sketchbook about the basics in design, https://coursecraft.
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