Stay On-line Material Collage Courses for Fall 2024: Register Now!


My schedule for the remainder of this 12 months will probably be full o’ material collage courses—some for a night right here and there, and a few for an entire week at a time. I hope you’ll come together with me by way of Zoom for any of those stay on-line courses, August by November.

August (it’s not too late to enroll): I will probably be presenting the second half of an in-progress weekly class, Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside.

September: I will probably be persevering with Thursday night time shows with the return of my Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch sequence—creating the second 4-week installment of an African Leopard portrait collaged solely with African materials.

October: I will probably be internet hosting a week-long Stay On-line Class for material collage fans at any degree—an Animals Solely class—such because the February 2024 class the place Brenda Carter started and completed her Tucson Tom Turkey (which may be seen on pc display screen in photograph above).

November: I’ll be educating one other week-long Stay On-line Class for intermediate to superior college students.

Take a look at the data under and examine your calendars to see in the event you can be part of us. By the way in which, Thursday night time shows are at all times recorded, and video hyperlinks are despatched to all registrants to confer with each time desired.


Stay On-line Courses Fall 2024

I made annotations on Judy Bilardello’s lion in our February 2024 All Ranges Stay On-line Class. These mark ups helped Judy additional outline the values that give her lion type.

Stay On-line Class ALL LEVELS Animals Solely

October 21-25, 2024

Most Class Measurement: 12
Value: $995
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This class is for all ranges of scholars and is proscribed to animals solely. Courses are 5 days lengthy (six hours class time every day). Possession of the Material Collage Grasp Class ($129) is a prerequisite as this acts because the “textbook” for this class.

Grace Crocker started her twentieth material collage quilt in our June 2024 Stay On-line Intermediate/Superior Class. A mere month or so later, this double portrait is completed! (see photograph under)

Stay On-line Class INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED LEVELS Any Topic

November 18-22, 2024

Most Class Measurement: 8
8 College students most to permit for extra time and instruction to delve farther into the material collage course of
Value: $1,495

To Register: This class is for knowledgeable college students on the intermediate or superior degree. It’s best to have a grasp of the basics of cloth collage earlier than beginning this class, ideally by taking a previous class with Susan, or having labored by the Grasp Class or different eWorkshop. Please submit your request to register to Tom ([email protected]) and he’ll ship you the hyperlink to register or ask for additional info. Thanks.

Grace’s completed quilt of her and her husband Invoice primarily based on a photograph of a type of staged old-time sepia pictures. They dressed up and posed for his or her twenty fifth marriage ceremony anniversary again within the mid 1970’s.

Material Collage Stay On-line Class Menu of Advantages

Tom and I try to make the stay on-line material collage expertise particular and completely different in its personal method. Each on-line and in-person courses are nice methods of studying that we now have entry to—every good for their very own causes and I discover it an attention-grabbing stability that I get pleasure from educating courses each methods.

Mary McKay is a scholar that continues to attend each in-person and on-line courses—like I mentioned, they each have their advantages—and she or he’s labored on this double portrait of her daughter and their household canine in each venues. Nonetheless, it’s on-line that I may give detailed annotations (above) on her pictures as a “guidelines” to work from. In photograph under, Mary shared her southern California house studio (and nicely organized material) with us.

Since we’re speaking about on-line courses on this publish, along with the benefit (and price financial savings) of attending from the consolation of your individual house—no journey concerned and entry to your material stash—Tom and I’ve added the next menu of perks.

By our on-line courses every scholar receives:

In pre-class teaching I met with Judy to assist simplify her sample into the bigger gentle/darkish worth areas for creating her lion collage.

Pre-Class and NEW Comply with-Up Teaching

We’ve at all times had particular person (pre-class) teaching periods stay with Susan to get you higher ready for sophistication—and now (on account of many requests), we’ve got added group (follow-up) teaching afterwards as nicely. A “class reunion check-in” of types a pair weeks after class has ended, to share progress and show you how to proceed your material collage journey.

Each day Class Movies
Pre-recorded movies of each day class demonstrations on the method of cloth collage are yours to maintain and overview each earlier than and lengthy after our week collectively has ended.

A Material Pack for Material Collage
Susan has been curating particular 10-fabric collections—mailed to each Stay On-line scholar because the week-long courses started in 2021—colourful and useful designs that will come in useful in the course of the week, or to horde for a later undertaking if not.

Pre-Class Meet and Greet
Meet your classmates in a pre-class Sunday night social. This assembly additionally serves to additional familiarize everybody with our Zoom classroom format.

Mid-Week After Class Social Hour and Present and Share
On a selected night after class, we relax with beverage and meals to chill out and get to know our classmates higher. Normally everybody sends us further pictures share a few of their previous work in material.

Each day Walkthrough of Scholar Progress
On the finish of every class day we return and go to the start and ending pictures of everybody’s topics—oohing and aahing on the nice progress and classes realized as we labored collectively.


Thursday Evening Zoom Occasions

As with all Thursday Evening occasions, you’ll obtain a hyperlink to the recording of every session. These hyperlinks will show you how to catch up in the event you miss an evening and will probably be yours to overview even after the category has ended.

Return of Fly on the Wall: Susan Carlson Studio Watch—African Material Leopard

Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch is meant to offer viewers an “over-the-shoulder” have a look at how I strategy my very own private material collage items of artwork. Please observe that this isn’t a workshop however fairly a chance to be a “fly on the wall” as I work by the material collage course of.

For this Fly on the Wall sequence, I’ll be returning to my in-progress African Material Leopard—choosing up the items (actually) from the place I left off a couple of months in the past. Every weekly presentation will start with a slide present to familiarize you with the place I’m at on my topic. I’ll then proceed stay as I preserve working and explaining my thought course of. There are alternatives to ask questions all through every session.

The African leopard I’ll proceed engaged on in the course of the subsequent Fly on the Wall periods—we’ll see what the remainder of her begins trying like!

September 12 & 19, and October 10 & 17

Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
All periods will probably be recorded for viewing later in the event you can’t attend a number of.
Value: $78 for 4 periods
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Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside

The Cicada I’m at the moment collaging in the course of the Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with Alongside.

It’s not too late to enroll in the Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside class. Register now and also you’ll obtain hyperlinks to the recordings of the earlier two Thursday night time periods and a bonus (prolonged) time lapse video of the primary draft of my cicada undertaking.

In distinction to my Fly on the Wall sequence, these Comply with-Alongs are material collage initiatives which can be designed and paced to get you began in your murals. I decide subject material that, as Tom says, are gateway medication into the material collage course of—versatile and low-stress designs to emphasise the playfulness of this system.

Every presentation begins with a slide present to get you going or to catch you up with the earlier week’s progress on my bug collage after which proceed with a stay demonstration. There will probably be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage people to look at, hear, and ask questions throughout our time collectively. Then I give “homework” for individuals who want to proceed engaged on their very own bug undertaking.

July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Jap Time

Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Value: $78 for 4 periods
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Included:
• 4 nights of demonstration and instruction
• Query and reply intervals
• Free patterns—of cicada and different bug of alternative
• Recordings of all periods
• Supplies checklist

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