January 27 & 28, 2024
10 am-3 pm
in person @Townsend Atelier
Instructor: Hollie Chastain
Come practice a skill that is fun and versatile! Whether you want to add a new technique to your existing art practice or you have never previously experimented with mixed media or collage, the applications are limitless. Along the same lines as embroidery, cross stitching and knitting it can be soothing, satisfying, and wonderful with vastly different results and endless ways to work texture and pattern into your paper art pieces. Students will spend the first day learning the basics and practicing different methods to use the weaving process then branch out into designing and executing their own patterns and combining weaving with clipped images and organic shapes in different and interesting ways. Open to all skill levels.
There will be a lunch break each day. Feel free to bring your lunch or enjoy lots of dining options nearby.
Materials to Bring:
Pencil
Black ink pen
Scissors (a smaller set is better for detail cutting)
Cutting knife such as an X-acto brand tool and extra blades
Low tack artist tape or masking tape (acid free)
**I will be providing a large assortment of paper materials but please feel free to bring along any from your collection that you want to work with
Instructor Will Supply:
Metal ruler
Carbon paper
Watercolor paper
Vellum/tracing paper
Glue sticks
Paint pens, paint, and other mark making tools
Cutting mats
An assortment of paper materials
Brushes
About the instructor: 
Hollie Chastain is an artist and illustrator living and working in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After starting a career in graphic design, she moved back into studio work in 2007, choosing collage as a medium. Using mainly paper, she combines found images with modern colors and compositions to create work full of originality and narrative. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections around the world with illustration clients including Warner Music, Smithsonian Magazine, Penguin Random House and the Oxford American.
