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People Getting Ready To Do Things


People Getting Ready To Do Things

People Getting Ready To Do Things

Saturday, February 8, 1-4pm

Optional follow-up session: Saturday, March 8, 2-3:30pm

Class level: All levels

Age requirements: 18 and older

Teaching artist: Christina Ruhaak (@cruhaak)

Class fee: $95.00

“People Getting Ready To Do Things” is the title of a 1974 Ed Ruscha text-based artwork. For this workshop, it’s you!

Come and explore how to keep your enthusiasm high to sustain your ongoing making practice. When faced with endless possibilities, progress can become paralyzed. In this workshop, we’ll explore “The Dailies,” a small-works making practice that gets your hands and mind moving.

The Dailies take 10 - 15 min each day, and have no cost, no rules, and no possibility of failure.

Christina will share her Dailies practice with you, and help you develop your own.

One month after the initial workshop day (on Saturday, March 8, 2-3:30pm), we’ll reconnect to see what each of you has discovered. (This session is optional, but recommended!)

In class we’ll explore, invent, make, and have fun.


Required supplies:

  • Please bring to share any material/yarn/thread/other bits and bobs, hard and soft. These can be pretty small, the scrap of the scrap.

  • Tape - any kind

  • Glue - craft white 

  • Scrap paper or notebook for notes/drawings 

Optional Supplies. TAC has the following supplies for participants to use. However, feel free to bring your own if you prefer:

  • Sharp scissors

  • Sharpie - black

  • Needle and thread

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Bio:

Christina Ruhaak is an artist and designer with a studio practice in Madison, Wi. She has designed custom Nepalese rugs for private clients for over 20 years. She is graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in textiles and has studied at the Designskole in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her textile work has been exhibited internationally. She loves collecting textile oddities. Her latest find was embroidered flowers made of fish scales.

Social: @cruhaak

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