Marks, Materials and Practice: a Northwind Art class

In this new workshop, you'll explore the tactile, expressive, and meditative qualities of shape and line. Teaching artist Meg Kaczyk (pictured) will guide you through simple visual prompts that inspire symbol-making. Over two hours, you'll develop your own personal visual vocabulary, creating unique symbols using dry and wet media — including sumi ink, charcoal, acrylic, and graphite — as well as subtractive techniques like erasure and resist.

Mark-making as a practice encourages relaxation while building a practical understanding of how different media respond to different surfaces, helping you develop line and symbol as elements of your art. You'll leave with a bound booklet of your exploration pages.