Smartphone Storytelling with Stephen Knifton
You can work for a corporation, thrive as a creative entrepreneur or do anything in between. But one thing is certain: if you’re entrusted with a brand or promoting your craft and skills -- everything begins and ends with social media.
We showcase our art and design, celebrate our creativity, market our products, develop an audience and build our business by strategically using TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and a dozen more social platforms.
So learn how to create and produce the kind of content that engages the different audiences on those platforms: using only your smartphone, and a few (free) creative apps.
Class Goals
Goal 1: Learn to understand the different audiences on the different social media channels, and the distinct kinds of digital content they engage with and respond to.
Goal 2: Understand and develop a strategy for making social media content that shows off the essence of your craft/brand, no matter what its size. Essentially, we're re-learning how to tell our own stories for the vast audience c…
Online Location: https://lessonface.com/smartphonestorytelling. Price: $200. Instructor: Stephen Knifton. Session Type: Multi Day. Program Area: Unique Offerings. Writing. Storytelling. Multi-Studio. Mixed Media. Photography. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: All Levels. Class Materials: Students will want to provide:
A smartphone; either Android or iPhone will do.
Monday, June 3, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit lessonface.com. Beginner BBQ: Smoke-Fire-Food with Jeff Hornung
Learn the basics of BBQ from the comfort of your own home! This class will cover several methods of smoking. Jeff has you covered with disscussions about shopping for smokers, picking charcoal, building a proper fire for cooking with smoke. What all can you smoke? Jeff will share some of his favorite recipes, times and temps guidlines. We'll hit the highlights of standards like ribs and pulled pork. Our talk will meander around rubs, sauces and more that can take your patio cooking to the next level. This will be a very tasty class!
Online Location: https://www.lessonface.com/apply/Beginner-BBQ-Smoke-Fire-Food. Price: $150. Instructor: Jeff Hornung. Session Type: Multi Day. Program Area: Cooking. Woodturning. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: Beginner. Intermediate. Class Materials: No materials are needed but having access to a smoker of some sort and proteins would allow you to cook along with me. Should you choose to smoke with me I strongly recommend a good digital instant read meat thermometer, longer BBQ style tongs and at least one heat resistant glove appropriate for grilling applications. I will be working primarily with a Big Green Egg but you can smoke with a standard kettle type charcoal grill, an offset smoker, a pellet smoker/grill and any brand of Kamado style cookers. I…
Saturday, June 8, 2024, 10:00 AM – Sunday, June 9, 2024, 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.lessonface.com. Watercolors Made Easy! with Joe Synan
Watercolors are not difficult!
This carefully designed class will allow all participants to become comfortable creating watercolor paintings of various subjects and sizes, using a variety of painting methods.
The class will explore background washes, color contrasts and complements, light and dark emphasis, masking, foreground and background structure, overall composition, and how the eye and mind see art.
Participants will produce many watercolor paintings to examine and refine their understanding of the "best practices" of watercolor painting.
Online Location: https://Lessonface.com/WatercolorsMadeEasyJune. Price: $200. Instructor: Joe Synan. Session Type: Multi Day. Program Area: Painting. Age Range: Adults. Skill Levels: All Levels. Class Materials: Your class registration fee includes a materials kit with a value of $50 shipped to your door.
The kit includes:
1. PAPER: It is important that students, especially beginners, start with high-quality paper.
-40 sheets 5X7 high quality watercolor paper (Arches 140 pounds)
-2 sheets 8X10 high quality watercolor paper (Arches 140 pounds)
2. MATS: After a painting is matted, it looks much more finished.
-20 white pre cut archival mats, 8X10 with opening 4.5X6.5
Materials below are to be provided by t…
Monday, June 10, 2024, 6:00 PM – Friday, June 14, 2024, 8:00 PM.
For more info visit lessonface.com. Lessonfest: Celtic Ballads - Songs, Poems, and Stories with Bobbie Pell (FREE)
Bring your guitar, fiddle, dulcimer, wooden spoons, voice, or just a good sense of humor to this workshop on traditional Celtic folksongs. Songs of betrayal, comedy, love, and romance will fill the air. Students will be exposed to the popular tunes and learn to compose narrative lyrics in ballad form and its variations. No musical background is necessary.
Delve into the ancient stories of honor, betrayal, mystery, comedy, and true love sprinkled throughout the literary legacy of the British Isles. The class will focus on the European ballads collected by Dr. Frances Child and American variations collected by Cecil Sharpe and Olive Dame Campbell. Poetic form and structure of balladry will be taught so students may create their own narrative ballads.
This small group class is presented in collaboration with John C. Campbell Folk School and Lessonface.
Class Goals
GOAL 1: To familiarize students with the tri-fold format of the Ballad: literary fiction (story), poetry, and lyrical narratives (songs).
GOAL 2: T…
Online Location: https://lessonface.com/celticballads. Price: $0. Instructor: Bobbie Pell. Session Type: Single Day. Program Area: Writing. Age Range: Adults. Skill Levels: All Levels.
Monday, July 8, 2024, 6:00 PM – 6:55 PM.
For more info visit lessonface.com. Lessonfest: Felt on a Bar of Soap 'Stashbusters' with Laura Berlage
Looking for a fun and easy project that will help you declutter your stash? Little bits of wool roving can have a way of stacking up after several kits or projects, and this is a fun and decorative way to use them up! Felted soaps last longer as well, and are beautiful in your home, as gifts, or as an affordable small item to add to your collection of handmade goods for sale. We’ll be using both wet and dry felting techniques to decorate bars of soap. Once you learn how to make them, it’s likely no bars of soap are safe! You are welcome to work on as many felted soaps as you desire during class.
This class is presented in collaboration with Lessonface.
Online Location: https://www.lessonface.com/apply/Felt-Bar-Soap. Instructor: Laura Berlage. Session Type: Single Day. Program Area: Needlework & Thread Art. Felt Making. Soap Making. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: All Levels. Class Materials: Materials to gather from your stash:
Bar of soap—dove or ivory works great, but really any bar of soap you love will
work, including handmade soaps. Rounded edged soaps are easier to work than
sharp cornered soaps.
Wool roving in any colors, or wool batting works too.
Water-safe surface (cookie sheet on your table can work, or kitchen counter).
Bowl of hot water
Bowl of cold water, or you can run your creation under the tap.
A towel…or two.
Drying rack.
Hair dryer (optional, as just letting it dry…
Monday, July 8, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.lessonface.com. Lessonfest: Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging (FREE)
About Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging
Join renowned dancer, Aubrey Atwater, for a Freestyle Flatfoot Clogging class. Flatfooting is a traditional form of American step-dance with African, European, and Native roots. This class is open to all! Aubrey has joyfully and successfully taught many dancers online.
This class is presented in collaboration with the Lessonface.
Online Location: https://www.lessonface.com/apply/freestyle-flatfoot-clogging. Price: 0. Instructor: Aubrey Atwater. Session Type: Single Day. Program Area: Dance. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: All Levels. Class Materials: Shoes with hard soles that slide well, comfortable clothing suitable for exercise, a hard floor surface or board to dance on are recommended but not required.
Monday, July 8, 2024, 7:00 PM – 7:45 PM.
For more info visit www.lessonface.com. Lessonfest: Stitch a Flower Pin Cushion 'Stashbusters' with Laura Berlage
Looking for a fun and easy project that will help you declutter your stash? Pin cushions are both decorative and useful (or yours could be a miniature pillow), and they are delightful to make. This vintage design is great for using up small quantities of fabric that you’ve kept because they’re pretty or feel special. Almost any fabric that can take a pin through it can be used, including loosely woven textiles if you place a layer of cotton muslin or calico behind it! Stitches and handweavers, have leftover bits you’d like to have find a home? Perfect! And there’s plenty of room for making this project extra special with embroidery and other embellishments if you desire.
This class is presented in collaboration with Lessonface.
Online Location: https://Lessonface.com/pincushion. Instructor: Laura Berlage. Session Type: Single Day. Program Area: Needlework & Thread Art. Felt Making. Soap Making. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: All Levels. Class Materials: Materials to gather from your stash:
A bowl, saucer, mug (e.g. round object) between 5 and 7 inches in diameter. This
will serve as your circular template.
Fabric scraps large enough to fit your round template object, though piecing
smaller fragments together works too.
Needle and thread.
Fabric and thread scissors.
Stuffing: fiber fill, wool roving or batting, etc.
Yarn, embroidery floss, or pearl cotton for outside shape stitching.
Decorative button or bead for center.
Sewing pins or fabric clip…
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit lessonface.com. Lessonfest: Shepherding the Full Experience - Transforming the Wool from Our Sheep to Fiber Arts Education Online with Laura Berlage (FREE)
Join Laura Berlage, farmer, fiber artist, and contemporary Renaissance woman on an exploration of her sustainable homestead farm in northern Wisconsin, the sheep she and her family raise, and how the wool becomes an integral part of her diverse online fiber arts courses. From lambing to shearing, color pallets to project design, explore the journey with Laura and discover the story behind the fibers that arrive in her kits.
This class is presented in collaboration with Lessonface.
Online Location: https://lessonface.com/fromwooltozoom. Price: $0. Instructor: Laura Berlage. Session Type: Single Day. Program Area: Needlework & Thread Art. Felt Making. Soap Making. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: All Levels.
Thursday, July 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit lessonface.com. Lessonfest: Intro to Watercolor Painting (FREE)
Join Intro to Watercolor Painting for a fun active painting experience with easy-to-follow demonstrations! In this class Joe will be demonstrating some basic principles of painting with watercolors, and you’ll get to make 3-4 small paintings within the hour.
This class is presented in collaboration with Lessonface.
Online Location: https://Lessonface.com/freewatercolor. Price: 0. Instructor: Joe Synan. Session Type: Single Day. Program Area: Painting. Age Range: All Ages. Skill Levels: Beginner. Class Materials: Any watercolor paints you have available , Any watercolor brushes you have available , Watercolor paper, if you can have some available , Small container of water , Drinking straw, if you have one available , Paper towels.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit lessonface.com.