Susie Monday

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    « Sensory Alphabet Workshop in April | Main | El Cielo Workshops »
    Saturday
    Mar202010

    ON-LINE LIVE at last

    The planning wall has finally come to life!

    Well, almost. At any rate I am to the point of taking registrations of my test pilot group.
    Here are the details (if you expressed interest before, you should have gotten an email today).

    The test pilot group will be open to the first 25 participants who respond. I don't think I can handle more participants than that and still do a good job of facilitation with the level of participation I hope we have.

    Dear Colleague:

    You have expressed interest in being one of my "test pilots" for a new on-line teaching format and for an online workshop that I will facilitate. After a busy winter season teaching and learning I am ready to launch the workshop, with the start date for the first week of classes set for Thursday, April 1. The online workshop will last for 7 weeks (the last week is optional since it involves more expensive materials and equipment), but I would like this free trial to have participating artists who can commit to at least the next 6 weeks to work through the exercises, or, at the least give me feedback as to the format and content.

    Here are the specifics of what I am offering with this course (it is a workshop-in-progress, with tweaking no doubt along the way!)

    TEXT ON THE SURFACE

    Week One -- Getting Started with Text on Textiles -- Ideas, inspirations, examples and collections to get going. Finding the right words for your personal stories, research and word-weaving. Fast forms to get your hands in motion and to start the ideas flowing. Supplies to gather, materials to look out for, prep to get you going, playtime in the studio and on the journal page. Writing exercises to continue throughout the course. (For specifics see my post two back in the archive)

    Week Two -- Cut and Paste, Word Collages.
    Week Three -- From Text to Textile.
    Week Four -- Stamping out a Message
    Week Five -- Write with the Sun -
    Week Six -- Putting it all together.
    Week Seven -- OPTIONAL -- Waxing Poetically


    The online workshop will be offered on a private, password protected website with another password protected website that will be used for comments and discussion hosted on posterous.com. There will also be pdf downloads of lessons, supplies, etc. (It may take me a few weeks to get them formated for download). The workshop will be conducted through these two online web-based platforms. If you do not have highspeed internet service I suspect the process will be too tedious for you to use. In the future, perhaps I will also offer the workshop as a CD or DVD.

    You will need to know (or be willing to learn) how to post comments on a website, send email to posterous, shoot and download photos into your computer of your work to share, attach photos to an email, search the web, set up bookmarks on your web browser. You will need a computer and printer/scanner if at all possible, and I reccommend that you have an all-in-one copier/printer though this is not essential. If you are accessing the workshop on a public computer, you must have the ability to log-in to password protected sites.

    I am not, for this first trial, providing any supplies or material kits other than an option for you to order thermofax screens from me. Supply services may be added in the future.

    As this is the FREE pilot launch for this course, those of you who commit to participating will help me improve as I learn more about how to make this powerful format work for all of us. In that light, I ask that you commit to the following:

    PLEASE respect my ownership and copyright for these materials and use them for personal use only, not for distribution. Do not share your confidential password and log-in information with others. The password will be changed every three months, so if you wish to participate in comments or review the materials, be sure to do so within that time period.

    Fully participate in group discussions, including posting examples of your work (photos), ideas, things you discover about the techniques and exercises, etc. Your comments and posts will be submitted via a separate but linked website on posterous.com. This means you simply will email photos, comments, etc to a dedicated, private website, accessible only to the members of this pilot course. Each lesson has a live link to the posterous site. I would like the option of using your submitted examples on future course websites and to illustrate exercises, and will credit your work with you name, if you wish. See the first assignment.

    Stay the distance, at least through the next 6 weeks of lessons. I will post one lesson per week. Each lesson includes several assignments-- some design exercises as well as some technical “how-tos.” You can, of course, complete the assignments (or not) at your own pace and in your own good time, but discussions will track the course timeline and weekly lessons. I will also make all the written lessons available as pdf formated downloadable documents, so that you can keep them handy as you work and for future projects. At the end of each assignment, you’ll find a checklist that you can use to monitor your progress.

    Participate in an evaluation at the end of the workshop so that I can improve and make the materials better and more useful.

    VERY IMPORTANT!! Share your experience with others, so that when I offer the tuition-based version of the workshop, I have you as an ambassador to help me market the workshop online and to the groups that you participate in.

    If this still sound like fun, please send me a prompt email return and I will mail you the registration information, password and links to the sites. Thanks for sharing the adventure!


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    Reader Comments (11)

    I've reached 25 registrants. If you are interested I can add you to a waiting list and also to my list of potential test pilots for the next course I develop. Thanks for all the interest!
    March 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSusie Monday
    Count me in please!
    March 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDotti Cullen
    I mean, count me in as being on the waiting list
    March 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDotti Cullen
    Golly darn...I just learned of this class Susie. I would love to be a tester/student so please place me on your waiting list in the event of a cancellation.
    ^^I^^'s
    March 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPatti Lockhart
    Would love to be added to your list of potential test pilots. Cheers!
    March 23, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTerri Holderith
    Sorry that I didn't respond quicker. Please add me to your waiting list for the future class. Best of luck to you in this exciting
    endeavor!

    Sharon HOward
    March 24, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSharon Howard
    I too would like to be on the waiting list.
    Sorry I did not see this sooner as well.
    Good luck with the group/class. Sounds like fun.
    March 31, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterlynn
    Hi
    I would love to be added to the waiting list, even though the course must already have started. I am a textile artist living in the UK. Your course sounds really good.
    I have taught embroidery and bookbinding in a classroom situation, and I have done one on-line course (printmaking) some time ago. So I do feel I could add some worthwhile comments whilst learning a lot myself.
    April 7, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLynne
    Hello Susie,
    Your class sounds really interesting! Please add me to your mail list for future classes. I found out about you perusing the Southwest School of Art and Craft. Thanks!
    Leah
    April 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLeah Virsik
    When you go official with an online class I am interested in signing up.enjoying your DVD and want more...
    May 5, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAnn Morrell
    Susie,
    Please add my name to future class lists. I am interested in nearly everything you are doing! I am a writer, student of English literature and technical writing (degreed), mother with an empty nest, artist and nature lover, perpetual learner and reader.
    Your recent (May 2010) statement about technique collecting, artist-in-training as opposed to artist-in-doing resonated with me; I am busy "being" right now but always have time and brainpower to spare. I am an enthusiastic student and learner!
    Suzanne C Gwynne
    North Carolina
    Gwycon2@yahoo.com
    May 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSuzanne Gwynne

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