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Welcome to the 2012 CREATE Retreats!
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What's in store at CREATE Mixed Media Retreats in 2012?
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Talented, creative instructors teaching your favorite mixed media workshops
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Techniques galore! Art Journaling, surface design, sewing, collage, jewelry making & much more
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Welcoming, warm and encouraging environment to help you explore and experiment
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Passionate mixed media artists of all skill levels creating together
Here are the location details:
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CREATE Orange County
May 30 - June 3, 2012
Hyatt Regency Irvine
Irvine, CA
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CREATE New Jersey
July 18-22, 2012
Doubletree Somerset Hotel
Somerset, NJ
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CREATE Chicago
August 22-26, 2012
Wyndham Lisle-Chicago
Lisle, IL
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CREATE California Workshops
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Happy Harpies
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Instructor: Helen Shafer Garcia
Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
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Join Helen Shafer Garcia—a painter, mixed media, found object and assemblage artist, and award-winning illustrator. Her whimsical style shows a love for living creatively with a studio filled to the brim with found objects! Helen’s watercolor illustrations have graced the cover brochures, garden articles and advertisements of numerous international resorts and magazines for more than 22 years.
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Instructor: Clarissa Callesen
Technique: Collage & Assemblage
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Join Clarissa Callesen—a former Rodeo Princess who left behind her cowboy boots and tiara for the wild adventure of life as an artist. She has been fortunate enough to work all of her adult life as a self employed artist, exploring many different artistic roles including tattoo artist, gallery owner, production potter, and currently assemblage artist and teacher. She exhibits throughout the Pacific Northwest at art festivals and selective galleries.
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CREATE New Jersey Workshops
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Aces & Eights - ATC Class
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Banner Wrap Beach Glass
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 Instructor: Lesley Venable
Technique: Collage & Assemblage
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Join Lesley Venable—a self-taught mixed media, collage, assemblage artist who lives in Roanoke, Virginia with her art husband and their family of fur babies. She has traveled across many states, near and far, to attend and teach at art retreats. During down time you can find Lesley busy in her studio creating art, blogging or working with her online class site at "The Art of Altering".
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Instructor: Eva Sherman
Technique: Mixed Media Jewelry
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Join Eva Sherman—who began playing with beads as a way to spend time with her daughters but soon discovered she really enjoyed it. In 2005, Eva traded in her architectural career for the opportunity to spend all her time among beads. Grand River Beads opened in Cleveland, Ohio, and where Eva now happily spend most days in the studio fooling with wire and metals.
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CREATE Chicago Workshops
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Dirty Hands Make Great Art: Found
Object House Canvas
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Circus Tent Collage
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 Instructor: Thespoena McLaughlin
Technique: Collage & Assemblage
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Join Thespoena McLaughlin—a mixed media artist and teacher living in the Ozarks with her family. She has art published in multiple magazines including on the cover of Sew Somerset. She has just finished building her 80% recycled art studio and it will soon be featured in Studios Magazine. She loves vintage and antiques so much so that she combined them to form the word Vintiquities. She loves making art, blogging, and teaching others to make art and follow their creativity.
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 Instructor: Mandy Russell
Technique: Collage & Assemblage
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Join Mandy Russell—a self-taught mixed media artist and busy mom of two. She is particularly drawn to collage, assemblage, and jewelry making. She’s heavy-handed with the oil pastels and loves challenging her inner perfectionist by coloring outside the lines. Her work has been featured in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, Collage in Color eMag, and Crafts ‘N’ Things Magazine. She also enjoys teaching art-related workshops and blogs almost daily.
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Meet CREATE Instructor
Thomas Ashman!
Thomas Ashman is a mixed media artist, bookbinder, composer, and teacher, who lives and works in northern New Mexico. Drawing inspiration from his education in literature and experiences in the construction trades, Thomas developed his unique book binding technique to facilitate the use of unusual materials such as glass, sheet metal, and hardware for the binding and covering of quality handmade art journals.
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CREATE 2012 Sewing Machine Sponsor
CREATE 2012
Supporting Sponsors
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