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Jill Berry
9 - 4:30
Sunday

H109 - Dream Houses

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$ 140  

I am a bit obsessed with houses: they frequently show up in my journals and dreams. Fortunately for me, the house is a versatile symbol. In the tradition of gospel music, houses are metaphors for our physical selves, containers for the worldly. Houses also represent place, sanctuary, and family.

In this class, we will construct two small houses with photos of someone we know (or don’t) as a focus in the portal. We will add a copper foil roof and base to the substrate that holds the house. Using paper, charms, bits of ephemera and beads, we will decorate the house to honor the resident. We will then draw and write on the copper, whatever adds to the story of this particular house, adding patina to age the roof and floor. Text can be added, or ribbons of wire mesh around the portal, drawings of floor plans, letters from home: we will keep going until the story is that of your own Dream House.

Supplies Needed for Class:

• decorative papers (12 x 12 and smaller)
• charms and beads
• small found objects
• stylus, dead ballpoint pen or dull pencil
• 2 photos 3x 5 or smaller
• glue brush
• a few sheets of waste paper
• exacto (I have extras)
• cutting mat
• steel ruler (I have extras)
• scissors

Optional items:

• colored pencils
• small hammer
• gel pens
• calligraphy tools
• book clamps

$20 Kit fee payable to the instructor includes:

• patina
• sheet copper
• copper tubing and wire
• adhesives
• mark-making tools
• substrates for houses
• small poems and stories about houses