Building Community: An Art Trading Card Workshop

About the class:

Join in a lively exchange of small original artworks. Make your own original artist trading cards (the same size as baseball trading cards) and learn how ATC Swaps work. Start your collection of small original artworks today!

Learning Objectives:

*Learn the radical history of Artist Trading Cards

*Learn how to create original artists' trading cards

*Discover how ATC Swaps work

*Learn how to store your collection of original ATCs safely

Bring to class: Your favorite making materials, a ruler, scissors, heavy paper such as card stock or watercolor paper, art supplies for creating small artworks (collage materials & glue, paint, rubber stamps, stickers, buttons, beads, fabric, etc.). (This is a great opportunity to upcycle old art you are willing to cut up into 2.5x3.5 pieces that can be ‘enhanced’ into new original artworks.)

About the instructor:

Helen Klebesadel (MFA UW-Madison) is a Madison based visual artist and a popular arts educator. Since retiring from an academic career to full-time art making, she continues to share her love of art through workshops and art mentoring. Born and raised in rural Wisconsin, Helen is best known for her environmental and women centered artworks in watercolors that push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. Klebesadel has exhibited her watercolors nationally and internationally, including through the U.S. Arts in the Embassies Program. The Bergstrom- Mahler Museum presented her first solo museum exhibition in 1994. Her academic career includes a tenured professorship at Lawrence University, and academic appointments art UW System and UW-Madison (including serving as the Director of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program, WRAP).

She is a national past president of the Women’s Caucus for Art and has served on the Wisconsin Arts Board. Helen’s paintings are represented in numerous public and private art collections.

We are not offering refunds at this time. If you have any questions or are allergic to any of the materials on the recommended supplies list, please email Y2FybmVsaWFuYXJ0Z2FsbGVyeSB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t.

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