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Climb Mountains by Roberta A. Inspired by a pop-up book story written by her daughter when she was seven.
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This Fall, I had the opportunity to teach two multi-session classes at The Art League School including an updated and expanded version of Connecting to Memories: The Stitched Word. I'm excited to share the inspiring work of students from that class in the next few posts.
FYI: I will be teaching this class again during the Winter 2021 term. For more information and to register go here.
I originally taught this as a three session in-person class a couple of years ago. I could see even then the potential of even a few words to express rich memories and family stories.
This expanded version of the class gave me the opportunity to design a series of new memory challenges using words while at the same time sharing a selection of stitching, applique and dimensional techniques. Students were also given a weekly Journal Exercise as a prompt for their weekly challenge piece.
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Roberta A.: Color Cues Journal Exercise
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This first assignment focused on using color as a memory cue.
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Judy P: Memories of her mother's love of the color orange.
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Judy P.
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Judy P.: The Big Orange Umbrella on the beach at Cape May to signal the family. |
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Sue W.: Memories of growing up in CA and worries about ongoing wildfires.
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Debra L.: Memories of falling in love in Hawaii.
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Debra L. : Pele's Passion
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