Mapping Me

Fill your journal with your cartographic travels, your personal maps, and your intimate geographies. Trekking through your heart, mind, memory, and imagination can be a very rewarding adventure as you depict it in your journal with your drawings, photographs, painting, doodlings, words, scraps of paper, and yes, maps! Old maps, worn-out maps, illustrated maps, sepia maps, colorful maps, breathtaking maps of worlds you live in. With the help of a series of prompts we will explore the joy of mapping ourselves. I have yet to meet an art journaler who is not fascinated with maps, they do intrigue us. And they often make their ’way’ into our journals in many lines, shapes and forms. Stephan S. Hall said that maps ultimately testify to our belief in the value of exploration, whether the compass is pointed inward or out. And I believe it can be said about visual journals as well. In our journals we will combine our own map creations with a variety of topographical and urban maps, grids, charts, patterns, and visual guides, to satisfy our longing for exploration and self-discovery.

Supply List

• Maps of all kinds (think outside the ’map’)
• Personal images- (pictures, notes, letters, misc. ephemera, etc.)
• Favorite art materials and tools- (pens, markers, pastels, scissors, etc.)
• Painting supplies- (a few color acrylic paints, cup for water, brushes, paper towels, etc.)
• Adhesives (decoupage medium, clear and masking tape, glue sticks)
• White Gesso
• Blow dryer
  
  Teacher will bring:
• Misc. maps, images, and ephemera