Final Report and Request for Reimbursement Form
Price includes performance, mileage and hotel stays. (Hotel costs will only be applied if artist stays overnight.)
Contact: www.compas.org/book or call Katie Schmieg Miller, Arts Program Manager at 651-292-3265
Drawing and Painting Workshop:
Anyone Can Draw: Basic Drawing and Painting Skills with COMPAS
Teaching Artist Andrew Young (https://www.compas.org/artists/andrew young)
This workshop will teach students the basics of drawing, exploring different ways of mark-making, various tools (pencil, pen, ink, marker), and some light art history showing different styles. The basics of shading, perspective, proportion, and edges will be covered, as well as different types of drawing subjects such as landscape, still-life, and figure, as well as drawing from the imagination. We will also explore painting, using watercolors and acrylics to expand into colors building off of the basic drawing skills.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Minimum/Maximum Number of Participants: 20 max.
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
SAORI Weaving Workshop:
Joy of Exploration: SAORI Weaving with COMPAS Teaching
Artist Chiaki O’Brien
(https://www.compas.org/artists/chiaki-obrien)
SAORI weaving provides the opportunity of freedom. Freedom to choose colors and textures while creating, to explore and much more! Chiaki will provide SAORI looms for the students to work on and she will facilitate and encourage students as they develop skills and enjoy the SAORI weaving process. The aim of the workshop is for students to create a one-of-a-kind piece of woven art! Only available April-October.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Minimum/Maximum Number of Participants: 12 max.
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Scarf Dyeing Workshop:
Bengala Soil Dyeing with COMPAS Teaching Artist Chiaki O’Brien
((https://www.compas.org/artists/chiaki-obrien)
In two hours, participants can dye a scarf or two, choosing from among 12 natural colors. This ancient dyeing process involves kneading, providing exercise to hands and fingers. Participants also enjoy the bright natural colors of Mother Earth coming from Bengala soil and create surprising designs on scarves they can keep or give as gifts. Only available April – October.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Minimum/Maximum Number of Participants: 15 max., 10-12 ideal
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Memoir Writing Workshop:
Leave a Legacy: Memoir Writing with COMPAS Teaching Artist Glenda Reed
(https://www.compas.org/artists/glenda-reed)
The longer we live, the more stories we have. Some stories don’t just want to be told, they need to be healed. Often the stories we come back to again and again in our lives are entangled with experiences that baffle, constrain, and misconstrue who we think we are or who we would have liked to have been. The act of writing allows us to tell ourselves our own stories in new ways. Time is a great healer, but sometimes we need more than the passage of the hours, we need to reimagine our own narratives in order to shift our relationship to their own histories. Only available May-August.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Writing Workshop:
Finding Your Story with COMPAS Teaching Artist Jen Scott (https://www.compas.org/artists/jen-scott)
Our stories are important! Build a practice of writing and sharing, all the while creating community. Each session will consist of go-round (quick icebreakers), 30 minutes of “flash” writing from a prompt, and then sharing what we’ve written. There is no pressure for any of the writing or sharing to be perfect: we just would love to hear your story.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Drum Circle Experience:
Spark to Learning: Drum Circle with COMPAS Teaching
Artist Mike Arturi
(https://www.compas.org/artists/mike-arturi)
Participants share in a traditional Drum Circle experience. Mike begins by showing how to play the two basic tones of ‘low and high’ on the drum along with the basic hand pattern of alternating right and left. This is followed by an introduction to the ‘START & STOP’, ‘I PLAY - YOU PLAY’ (call and response), ‘RUMBLE’ (drum roll) and some basic hand directions. These simple techniques are a Spark to Learning as participants express themselves, play together, support each other in various rhythm games and realize success in learning and a sense of accomplishment all while “having fun with the drum!”
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Poetry Workshop:
Poetry Practice with COMPAS Teaching Artist Morgan Grayce Willow
(https://www.compas.org/artists/morgan-grayce-willow)
This workshop is a hands-on introductory journey into the practice of poetry. Through guided readings of a wide variety of poems and lots of writing exercises, participants gain fresh insights into how poems are made and experience writing their own poems in a supportive environment. Participants will come away with a clearer sense of how to read poems and whose poems they like. They will also feel more confidence about expressing themselves in their own poems.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Journal Writing Workshop
Journal Writing for Life and Creativity with COMPAS Teaching Artist Morgan Grayce Willow (https://www.compas.org/artists/morgan-grayce-willow)
Keeping a journal can be as simple as writing down the date and making a note about the day’s weather. It can also be a kind of laboratory for a writer’s frequent practice of writing. Participants learn the techniques and strategies writers who keep journals or notebooks have used for centuries to explore their subjects and develop skill in their craft. Through a wide variety of exercises – some visual (no artistic skill needed) – participants try out journal writing techniques they can use in their lives and in their writing.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)
Mandala Workshop:
Mandala Design with COMPAS Teaching Artist Shakun
Maheshwari
(https://www.compas.org/artists/shakun-maheshwari)
Learn about Indian culture, history and celebrations through art making. Folk arts result from the creativity of ordinary people working with ordinary materials. Shakun demonstrates the rich cultural heritage of India, linking it to other countries with similar folk art materials and designs. Experience Indian culture, clothing, and language and make art using traditional materials. Mandala is a circular design representing the universe, the elements, and the human connection. For these sessions, a mandala design is already provided as a starting point. Participants add lines, dots, and color to the mandala to create a design that is uniquely their own. Participants are encouraged to continue exploring the art of mandala by creating an original design.
Duration: 120 minutes
Cost for 2024/2025: $535 + supply costs (average $7 per participant, inquire for specifics)