Stay On-line Cloth Collage Lessons for Fall 2024: Register Now!


My schedule for the remainder of this 12 months will likely be full o’ cloth 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 dwell on-line courses, August by November.

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

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

October: I will likely be internet hosting a week-long Stay On-line Class for cloth 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 could be seen on laptop display in photograph above).

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

Try the information beneath and verify your calendars to see should you can be part of us. By the way in which, Thursday night time displays are at all times recorded, and video hyperlinks are despatched to all registrants to consult with every time desired.


Stay On-line Lessons 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
Worth: $995
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This class is for all ranges of scholars and is restricted to animals solely. Lessons are 5 days lengthy (six hours class time every day). Possession of the Cloth Collage Grasp Class ($129) is a prerequisite as this acts because the “textbook” for this class.

Grace Crocker started her twentieth cloth 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 beneath)

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
Worth: $1,495

To Register: This class is for knowledgeable college students on the intermediate or superior degree. You need 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 based mostly on a photograph of a kind 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.

Cloth Collage Stay On-line Class Menu of Advantages

Tom and I attempt to make the dwell on-line cloth collage expertise particular and totally different in its personal means. 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 take pleasure in 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 beneath, Mary shared her southern California house studio (and nicely organized cloth) 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 cloth stash—Tom and I’ve added the next menu of perks.

By way of 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 classes dwell with Susan to get you higher ready for sophistication—and now (resulting from many requests), we have now added group (follow-up) teaching afterwards as nicely. A “class reunion check-in” of kinds a pair weeks after class has ended, to share progress and aid you proceed your cloth collage journey.

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

A Cloth Pack for Cloth 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 which will turn out to be useful throughout 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 calm down and get to know our classmates higher. Often everybody sends us additional pictures share a few of their previous work in cloth.

Every day Walkthrough of Pupil 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 Night time Zoom Occasions

As with all Thursday Night time occasions, you’ll obtain a hyperlink to the recording of every session. These hyperlinks will aid you catch up should you miss an evening and will likely be yours to evaluation even after the category has ended.

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

Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch is meant to provide viewers an “over-the-shoulder” take a look at how I method my very own private cloth collage items of artwork. Please word that this isn’t a workshop however reasonably 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 Cloth Leopard—choosing up the items (actually) from the place I left off just a few 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 dwell as I hold 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 throughout the subsequent Fly on the Wall classes—we’ll see what the remainder of her begins wanting like!

September 12 & 19, and October 10 & 17

Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
All classes will likely be recorded for viewing later should you can’t attend a number of.
Worth: $78 for 4 classes
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Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside

The Cicada I’m at present collaging throughout the Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with Alongside.

It’s not too late to join the Fascinating Cloth 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 classes 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 cloth collage initiatives which can be designed and paced to get you began in your murals. I choose 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 method.

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 dwell demonstration. There will likely be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage of us to look at, pay attention, 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. Japanese Time

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

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