Mapping your Neighborhood using Google maps

Mapmaking Explorations

Individuals of all levels of artistic experience are encouraged to participate as the goal of this project is to use hands-on exercises to learn new ways to consider map making.  Steve Liggett will conduct a 5 short workshops in creating Artists’ maps.  Each Wednesday from 6-8pm from May 31 – June 28.  Through hands on exercises, the goal of this project is to show the participant the many ways to think about maps and to give them a wide variety of media to facilitate this. Each week they show what they accomplished from the week before and learn a new technique.

This page is for registering for this workshop >>>> June 7, 6-8pm - Mapping your Neighborhood using Google maps.  Fabric and Paper Collage – sewn, fused or glued down and then painted over.  Bring scraps, a large background canvas, paints, pencils and a $10 materials fee.

Other Workshops:

May 31, 6-8pm - Mapping What a Perfect Day Looks Like.  Working with Folded Paper into a Zine & pencil.  People bring what they want to work with:  Watercolor, Pen & Ink, Paper, Clay, Poetry… etc… $10. Materials fee.

June 14, 6-8pm - Working with Clay & Underglazes we build a Topographical Map and make it into tiles that each person works on.  $10 materials fee.

June 21, 6-8pm - Fantasy Treasure Map. Bring Cray-Pas, Watercolor. Ink pens & Tempera on Paper (Paper Batik). Inspiration for this can be from your imagination or from an area in your back yard. $10 materials fee.

June 28, 6-8pm - Combining all of these techniques learned or other media into a  Map of an Personal Experience.  The group is asked to write down numerous answers to favorite things and then picks from these a final project. Using any of the above techniques or combinations, this project takes on a much more of a finished look.  Bring whatever you wish to work with. $10 materials fee.

Pre-enrollment is encouraged as space participation is limited, although the workshop will be open for the public to attend.