Instructor: Karen Zukas
Ages: 10 up
Format: Three 2 1/2 hour workshops
Date: Thursdays, October 1st, 8th and 15th (see class details)
Time 10:00 to noon
Course Fee: $90.00 Worth every penny ! You'll make a LOT of cards in these 3 workshops. Includes all materials to make up to 4 cards and envelopes Per Workshop . See details from 3 Card Making workshops 101, 102, 103
104 ~ The Card Bundle ~ All 3 Card Making Workshops for $120
In these dynamic mixed media workshops, You'll create cards for all occasions, more importantly, you'll have all the skills you'll need to make cards for the rest of eternity ! In this bundle of workshops you'll create beautiful and unique images while learning the techniques, skills and processes for all 3 approaches; collage/decoupage, stamping/stenciling, painting and dried flower arranging and more. Most importantly, with your new skills, you'll have cards for the rest of your lives !! Using your guided composition skills and excellent imagination, you'll arrange, paint, paste, dob, spray, glue and layer as well as using some paper manipulation and juxtapositioning with dried flowers, small objects and other materials, you'll create wonderful design images sure to touch and warm the heart of any recipient. Through exploration and careful arranging, you'll be making beautiful images for your cards. We have Ooodles of materials to choose from, and 100s of ways to help you create, emote and express. Each one is a unique expression and personal "hello". Some will even be framable and collectable.
" I know what care, time, energy and effort goes into picking, pressing and preserving flowers, not to mention the care of making the card. I'm so touched to have received such a personal and meaningful card. I'm going to frame it today !" Recipient of a card by an NBACE student.
Karen Charbonneau Zukas has been making all kinds of stuff for most of her life. She is a graduate of Tufts university and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with a master’s degree in education from Western New England University. She is a recognized portrait painter and potter and former columnist for the Bulletin in Boston. She has been teaching various subjects, primarily advanced ESL, fine art, writing, test prep, debate and humanities; at universities, preparatory, public, private and international schools and community ed in Boston and now locally for over 35 years. She and her family moved back to the south coast in 2013. She is currently working on a book which is a series of short animal stories from her personal experiences. She is the proprietor of Peasantware Pottery in New Bedford and the founder of The New Bedford Art and Cultural Emporium at Kilburn ! Email: kczukas@comcast.net
Have your GPS take you to 101 West Rodney French Blvd. in New Bedford. Once there, please park on the end of the building AWAY from the main entrance. You'll see an ORANGE door that says Mattress Handup...enter there and go up the stairs. At the top of the stairs...follow small yellow signs for NBACE. We're right around the corner behind the mural !!