PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend artist and teacher Meg Kaczyk will host an informal class on Sunday called “Art Journaling through Change: In Community” at Northwind Art, the nonprofit school at Fort Worden State Park.
The session, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., is open to everyone with no prerequisites, Kaczyk said. Participants are asked to sign up on Northwind’s website, NorthwindArt.org.
Art journaling — using any blend of collage, words, paint, pencil and/or mixed media — is a process that can illuminate your life, Kaczyk said. As we go through transitions, mixing words and images in a sketchbook can open up one’s sense of an emerging self and become a habit that feeds the soul, Kaczyk added.
At the same time, like any good habit, it can be hard to keep an art journal going. So Kaczyk’s low-key community class is designed to support art-journalists, through sharing, learning and discovery. She’ll offer guidance for wherever each person is in their art journaling process, and provide fresh prompts to feed new directions.
“If you want to get an inspired jump-start back into your art journaling, or if you want to find out what the journaling practice has looked like for other artists, you will benefit from this class,” Kaczyk said.
Also in this vein at Northwind Art, Kaczyk is offering a “Mindfulness Practices for Art Making” class on June 10; art educator Aliina Lahti will teach “Nature Mantras and Mandalas: In the Woods!” on June 14, and quilting teacher Barbara Ramsey will host Open Sew & Quilt on June 22.
Information and enrollment are available under “Take a Class” on the Northwind Art website, NorthwindArt.org.
Teaching artist Meg Kaczyk will host “Art Journaling through Change: In Community” at Northwind Art School in Port Townsend on Sunday. (Meg Kaczyk)
