“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”~ Julia Cameron
About: A group that uses the expressive arts, mentorship, peer support and facilitated conversations to offer practical wisdom, fun and creative practices to help teens to navigate the complexity of these times. Topics will include identity, personal and collective exploration, self care, surviving pandemic-living, and topics of the teens choice. The group will run with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12 participants.
- Who: Teens (age 14 – 18)
- What: Altered Book Project & Peer Group
- Dates: July 7, 14, 21, 28
- Time: Mondays, 3pm – 4:15pm (PST)
- Cost: $275
Special Offer
- Group + Six weekly 1:1 Sessions – individual mentorship/support sessions (50 minutes each):
- Cost: $1,150
- Payment plans available. Some scholarships available on a first come first serve basis. Please inquire if cost is an issue.
To Register
- Paypal or Venmo $275 to Naomi Kimmelman
- paypal.me/naomikimmelman or venmo @ naomi-kimmelman
- Upon registration, I will email you a client welcome packet including a contact form and questionnaire.
About the Project
What is an altered book?
An art object that has been created from an existing, printed book. The book is altered through whatever means and media the artist chooses such as using the book’s pages as a canvas on which to apply paint, collage, drawing, or rubber stamping.
Some altered book artists choose to work within a certain theme, while others work with the original contents of the book to create art.
What to Expect
This group will combine talking and group check in’s with goofy games, movement/stretch breaks, short expressive arts activities, and time for art making!
Teens will be expected to continue to work on their altered book throughout the week. They will be given creativity prompts meant to inspire their work and will be discussed in each session and sent through email.
Teens will also be assigned a “buddy” and empowered to check in with each other over the course of the group. Teens will be given support for these check ins that will help them to practice active listening and communication skills, responsibility and accountability.
Supplies
- A recycled book (Preferably large, hardcover and one with laced-in bindings.
- Glue
- Scissors
- Paints/Paint brushes
- Pencils
- Pens
- Sharpie
- Markers
- Magazines/books for collage materials
Optional Supplies:
- Beads/Gems/Glitter
- Clothes Pins or Paper Clips (To hold pages together that are glued.)
- Ruler
- X-acto knife
- White out
- Stamps
- Fabric
- Yarn
- Anything you can think of!