Saturday, February 21, 2026
10am – 4pm
Visual Journaling: A Creativity Workshop
This workshop will explore the relationships between the artist, journals, personal narratives and creative art process. We’ll use a variety of collage techniques with dry adhesives, new perspectives on connections and layering, unique surface treatments and strategies to highlight the unique features that book structures can add to your artwork.
The personal, reflective nature of the journal can really expand one’s life and art process. How does the interface with a journal change the art process, inform the artwork, and develop a greater meaning? If writing in a traditional diary doesn’t resonate with you, perhaps a visual journal is the answer.
After exploring different styles of journals, you’ll choose between store-bought journals, altered books, or your own handmade book to continue for the afternoon. Demonstrations will include collage, packing tape transfers, unusual text treatment, weaving, and pop-out elements.
The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts
Annex Classroom, 253 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA
All materials are provided along with technique handouts.
$155 plus $30 materials fee payable to instructor in class.
Open to all media and skill levels.
Please bring drinks, snacks and lunch.
Info HERE
