Classes and Workshops
Reconnect With Your Wild Side!
Fiber College Touchstone Retreat
Searsport, Maine
September 3-7, 2025
Together, we can build a beautiful partnership with nature, discovering fresh ways to weave our personal stories together with the natural world. Sensory experiences facilitate a heart-centered connection where we realize that we are intrinsically a part of the life all around us.
During our retreat, we will harvest sustainable plants from the edges of the landscape and from the garden for artmaking. Using our wet sheets and pulp, we will learn to sculpt, emboss, cast, and incorporate natural fibers to create three-dimensional works of art.
June 21-27, 2026, Le Marche Region, Italy
Papermaking, Paper Sculpture, and Book Binding with Italiana Tours
Meet me in Italy!
This immersive retreat-style workshop is designed to guide participants through a transformative creative journey, facilitating an opening of the heart-sense and intuitive awareness. Through discussions and demonstrations, participants will discover innovative ways to allow the inherent qualities, textures, and characteristics of various materials to naturally guide the creative process and take the lead in developing unique compositions.
Take a Walk on the Wild Side!
Intro to Papermaking with Plants
July 14, 2025, 10 am - 1 pm
Heart of Ellsworth, 16 State Street, Ellsworth, Maine
While harvesting and working with plants, participants often find themselves in a state characterized by a soft somatic awareness, a sense of timelessness, an active imagination, and a curious open heartedness. This form of wild tending is restorative and supportive in a reciprocal relationship with our surroundings.
In this class, participants will learn how to use plants from the landscape to make paper. You will have ample opportunity to make at least five sheets of handmade paper. The process will be thoroughly explained allowing you to continue to make paper from the plants you have in your own garden and surrounding area. A garden walk will be included to introduce you to several sustainable possibilities.
Reconnect with your wild side! Together, we can build a beautiful partnership with nature, discovering fresh ways to weave our personal stories together with the natural world.
Explore Your Wild Heart!
Dyed and Stab Bound Journals
July 14, 2025, 2 pmm - 5 pm
Heart of Ellsworth, 16 State Street, Ellsworth, Maine
A wonderful way to use our handmade papers is to create a journal. In this class, you will learn a simple dyeing technique using kakisubu (Japanese persimmon juice extract) and dye extracts to decorate your papers to use as covers. Papers for interior pages will be on hand. You will learn to stitch them together in the Japanese style with a tortoise shell stab bound technique. Your book will be the perfect companion for any creative expression in the landscape.
Let's fully explore our wild hearts together in this inspiring landscape!
I am absolutely thrilled!
The Fibre Arts Take Two team worked tirelessly on the video content and all the supporting materials. They have put together a beautiful course with eight modules that I am so proud to be a part of. It has been an amazing experience to work alongside the entire team – they are truly experts in their field. Registration for the first session of Focus and Flow is now closed. To learn more about the course and register your interest for the next session watch the show reel and click the link below.
