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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

Mediation Journals are used to aid in the relaxing and healthy use of simple meditation for well-being. Using recycled textiles from your stash and mine, we will create a meditation journal and then explore options for the work that you do in it. This will be handsewn from beginning to end and there is no need for any stitching experience. The class includes the making of the journal, material resources, found objects, beads, buttons, trims, lace and lots of other items to work with. Feel free to bring things from your own stash. Your journal will reflect you and only you. We will learn stitching techniques both traditional (kantha, boro and embroidery) and nontraditional contemporary methods, attaching techniques and treatments to change the fabric of the pages themselves both before and after being bound. Quiet time to work will be included at the end of each day to practice what you have learned. There are no words involved unless you stitch them in….it’s your thoughts translated into the cloth of the pages by your hands as you stitch. Only you know the meaning. No experience needed. Beginners welcome!

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

Materials included in tuition.

Stitching a Meditation Journal, 18+

Bee Shay

Bee Shay has been an art instructor since 1976 and a full-time island resident since 2006. She studied art in high school and college and hasn’t stopped learning since. In 2010, she authored the book, **Collage Lab** (Quarry Books), which has been published in 5 languages, remains in print today, and was adopted by several public-school systems to be used by their art departments. Bee has been a print maker since the early 1990's and has been a longstanding member, instructor, and board member of the Nature Printing Society; an international non-profit group whose mission is to teach the love and respect of the natural world through art, with outreach programs into public and private schools and groups all over the world. Bee is a nationally recognized instructor, who decided to stop traveling to focus on her island community. She has taught for AAN and the Nantucket Atheneum, and has worked with the faculty of the Nantucket Lighthouse School developing art-based educational projects for the classroom for over 15 years.
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