My workshops provide a warm and energizing environment without judgement or pressure. Ideas and inspiration are freely exchanged.
Bookmaking & Collage combo Workshops
These engaging workshops are co-taught with Jane Ploughman, New Haven bookmaker and artist. All materials and tools provided. You will make 3 or more books using simple techniques. You will also have time to fill the pages of your books with words, images, color, and all manner of collage material provided!
Block Printing Workshops
An inspiring day of creative expression using simple block printing techniques. You will leave with the knowledge and ability to make your own prints at home. A fun skill for making your own greeting cards, notecards, bookmarkers, scrapbooks, posters, tshirts, and more!
All materials and tools are provided.
All materials and tools are provided.
Collage Workshops
Collage is a great medium to express oneself.
Aside from a pair of scissors and a glue stick you don't need to purchase any materials. Your materials are all around you — in your recycle bin, in old magazines, books, calendars, in the boxes of sewing notions, old greeting cards, and photos in your attic.
ANYONE can do it. It's not incumbent on being an artist or having any special skills. All the shapes, textures, colors, patterns and lines already exist.
Through my own samples and past experience I share basic design elements, a variety of techniques, and tips for keeping your "inner critic" at bay so that you can have lots of free time to create several pieces. We make simple collages on cardboard, we make books, we make assemblages with a variety of containers. The workshops take place in Bristol, Vermont.
Aside from a pair of scissors and a glue stick you don't need to purchase any materials. Your materials are all around you — in your recycle bin, in old magazines, books, calendars, in the boxes of sewing notions, old greeting cards, and photos in your attic.
ANYONE can do it. It's not incumbent on being an artist or having any special skills. All the shapes, textures, colors, patterns and lines already exist.
Through my own samples and past experience I share basic design elements, a variety of techniques, and tips for keeping your "inner critic" at bay so that you can have lots of free time to create several pieces. We make simple collages on cardboard, we make books, we make assemblages with a variety of containers. The workshops take place in Bristol, Vermont.
Holiday Workshops
In December and February I open up my studio for Community Cardmaking for Adults. Free. All Materials are provided, although a donation is appreciated.
People drop in anytime between 11am and 3pm, pull up a chair, and have at it with all the colorful bits and bobs, rick rack, rubber stamps and lots more to make one-of-a-kind cards for family, friends, and neighbors. Email me if you'd like to be on the mailing list to receive my Announcements: LilyHinrichsen @ gmail.com
People drop in anytime between 11am and 3pm, pull up a chair, and have at it with all the colorful bits and bobs, rick rack, rubber stamps and lots more to make one-of-a-kind cards for family, friends, and neighbors. Email me if you'd like to be on the mailing list to receive my Announcements: LilyHinrichsen @ gmail.com
Testimonials from Workshop Participants
Lily's block printing workshop was exactly what I needed to express my designs in a new style. Her work is refreshing and inspiring.
Reagh
You have no idea how much I loved your workshop on Saturday! It left me breathless and wanting so much more! One of the best days I have spent in a very long time. Feeling free to create and explore while allowing my mind, heart, and soul to travel down new paths.
Mary Ann
Lily's collage workshop was fun, creative, and inspiring! I now look at objects in a different way:
Paper, buttons, boxes, you name it; any of them could end up in a collage.
What a wonderful way to spend a Saturday!
Ruth
Thank you both once again for preparing the setting for a group of women (just the way it is!) to partake in a Collage Workshop, to relax into the playful and creative self, to play with color, texture, shape and whimsical what-nots (or knots!). This is my 3rd adventure into the world of collage and I just can't get enough. I'm a groupie :)
Catherine
My creative spirit definitely felt "free to fly" yesterday -- amazing that both my creations spoke about "flying"! I wish I had a space to
come to like this on a regular basis! I will definitely be looking forward to gatherings like this again....... thanks so much for your
wonderful example of the power of collaboration and working together to spark new ideas, feel community and have
an avenue for the free flow of our full expression.
Wendy
This was a marvelous class....full of joyful creativity, experimenting and sharing with a great group and wonderful teachers
whose personal experiences led the way for us to create very amazing art.
Dechen
The teachers and studio space was welcoming and I felt comfortable and excited to begin as I had
thought about collage but never “did".
Chris
The days of the workshops were welcomed solaces of creativity, peace, and processing for my friend and me.
Lily and Janet were open to sharing their knowledge and experience and created a welcoming, accommodating environment for all.
Gwen
What a gift to have taken this workshop. It came just at the right time in my too busy life at the moment.
It was such a warm and welcoming space and all the materials were so inspiring. I will never look at another altoid box the same!
If you come to this workshop with no materials of your own, you will not be disappointed, the choices are endless.
The structure of the day was perfect, giving you direction then letting you loose with your new found knowledge.
I can't wait for the next one!
Zoe
Janet and Lily are knowledgeable, fun, encouraging and inspiring teacher-artists.
They set up an environment in which people have easy access to the materials needed
to engage in the creative process and feel comfortable enough to dive right in.
Alice
Some samples of Collage workshop pieces
the Collage Collaboration Project
For approximately 8 months Janet Fredericks [local artist] and myself met at the Bristol Bakery weekly. We each had a sketchbook of the same size with blank pages. We passed these sketchbooks back and forth each week, challenging ourselves to create 10 pages of collages each week and/or work over the top of each other's collages until the sketchbooks were filled.
Over the course of 8 months we also began adding writing to these collages — noting our thoughts and feelings as we worked on these pages. To our surprise and pleasure we discovered so many meaningful lessons about relinquishing our egos, accepting support, breaking out of our creative patterns, and more. It inspired us to want to share this process with others. Join us for one of our "Collaboration with Collage" workshops!
Over the course of 8 months we also began adding writing to these collages — noting our thoughts and feelings as we worked on these pages. To our surprise and pleasure we discovered so many meaningful lessons about relinquishing our egos, accepting support, breaking out of our creative patterns, and more. It inspired us to want to share this process with others. Join us for one of our "Collaboration with Collage" workshops!
