Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Again to Faculty 2024—Upcoming Reside On-line Material Collage Courses


As children head again to highschool this week, I assumed it might be an excellent time to remind you of our upcoming academic alternatives.

This fall we’re providing two Reside On-line Material Collage 5-Day Courses. If this might be your first cloth collage class, the October class is for you. Or possibly you’ve attended both the Fantastical Fish or Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with Alongside courses (see instance above)—for you additionally, this all-levels class can be an incredible place to stretch your expertise with a extra complicated topic. Decide an animal topic and be a part of us!

When you’ve got taken both an in-person or Reside On-line Class with me earlier than, then our November class may swimsuit you. Designed for many who have already got an excellent understanding and expertise with the basics of material collage, this class permits individuals to dive deeper into the method with a challenge of their alternative, together with portraiture.

Reside On-line Courses now embrace each pre-class teaching—to make sure you are prepared for sophistication on day one—after which follow-up teaching—that will help you get nearer to the Material Collage End Line. See the information under for extra particulars.

So collect your cloth, scissors, pins and glue, and are available again to highschool for a number of days—from the consolation of your personal residence—with certainly one of these Reside On-line Material Collage Courses!


Reside On-line Material Collage—Fall 2024

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

Reside On-line Class ALL LEVELS Animals Solely

October 21-25, 2024

Most Class Dimension: 12
Worth: $995
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER

This class is for all ranges of scholars and is restricted to animals solely. Courses are 5 days lengthy (six hours class time every day). Possession of the Material Collage Grasp Class ($169 with pupil low cost) is a prerequisite as this acts because the “textbook” for this class.

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

Reside On-line Class INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED LEVELS Any Topic

November 18-22, 2024

Most Class Dimension: 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 stage. It’s best to have a grasp of the basics of material collage earlier than beginning this class, ideally by means of taking a previous class with Susan, or having labored by means of 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 data. Thanks.

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

Material Collage Reside On-line Class Menu of Advantages

Tom and I try to make the reside on-line cloth 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 fascinating steadiness that I get pleasure from educating courses each methods.

Mary McKay is a pupil 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. Nevertheless, it’s on-line that I may give detailed annotations (above) on her photographs as a “guidelines” to work from. In photograph under, Mary shared her southern California residence 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 personal residence—no journey concerned and entry to your cloth stash—Tom and I’ve added the next menu of perks.

Via our on-line courses every pupil receives:

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

Pre-Class and NEW Comply with-Up Teaching

We’ve all the time had particular person (pre-class) teaching periods reside with Susan to get you higher ready for sophistication—and now (on account of many requests), we’ve 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 make it easier to proceed your cloth collage journey.

Day by day Class Movies
Pre-recorded movies of each day class demonstrations on the method of material collage are yours to maintain and evaluate 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 Reside On-line pupil because the week-long courses started in 2021—colourful and useful designs which will come in useful throughout the week, or to horde for a later challenge 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 photographs share a few of their previous work in cloth.

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

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