Saturday: Art Journaling: Things Remembered [Adult]

Reflect on your own personal journey by merging art and language. In this class, students are provided with engaging prompts for writing about the highlights of their lives while learning techniques in a variety of media to include evocative images. Inspired by their own personal memories, participants will develop the practice of keeping an art journal and explore how to transfer creative ideas onto paper in images and words.

Materials Needed: 9x12 or 11x14 mixed media or heavy paper hardbound or spiral book, #8 round watercolor brush, one flat, watercolor pencils (Derwent suggested), small bottle of Mod Podge or Matte Medium, glue stick, basic set of watercolors, .05 .01 Black Micron marker (fine permanent marker), white eraser. Also Helpful: cardboard, lined paper, old magazines

About the Teaching Artist: Dressler Smith is a nationally acclaimed American artist, and author, whose unique works on paper and stained glass windows are designed for churches & are to "touch the human spirit". Dressler Smith's journey is chronicled in the new book "Celebrating Life Through the Arts: The Inspirational Journey of Dressler Smith". Her work became private acquisitions of notable celebrities Oprah Winfrey, former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham and Coretta  Scott King.

Dressler has been the Coordinator of Adult Programs for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts in Philadelphia, PA, through June 2017 and she has taught at Camden County College for 23 years. She was voted one of 20 Super Women of 2016 by South Jersey Magazine.

Dressler's paintings and stained glass are dedicated to the memory of the mothers of our past many of which were unable to have an art career.