Creative Practice Online Class

Katrina Rodabaugh is an artist and writer working across disciplines to explore environmental issues through craft techniques. Mostly, she rethinks the relationship between fiber arts, sustainability, and slow fashion. In 2013, she created her slow fashion project, Make Thrift Mend, to focus on mending, plant-dyeing, and re-designing garments. She publishes articles and books, teaches workshops, and designs goods for her online shop. She's the author ofMending Matters(2018) andMake Thrift Mend(2021). She currently lives in the Hudson Valley of NY with her husband, two young sons, chickens, and honeybees. Visit her website: www.katrinarodabaugh.com

Katrina Rodabaugh

Creative Practice: Birthing Big Art Dreams and Pivoting from Dreaming to Doing with Katrina Rodabaugh

Creative Practice Online Class with Katrina RodabaughClass OverviewThere’s an opportunity to center creativity into your everyday life and turn your biggest art dreams into reality. It doesn’t happen overnight, it isn’t solely based on mystical blessings from the awe-inspiring muses, but instead you can steadily gain access to the creative life you most want to live by making it a reality, one habit at a time. Creative practice is the ongoing work of making art—it’s the daily rituals, ordinary systems, and organized tasks. At all stages of a creative life, you need to make time to tune-in, dream bigger, and set new ideas into action. In this class, you’ll focus on what you most want to make in your life right now, how you want to share it with the world, and who will support you in this journey. You’ll demystify the creative process while holding space for the magical muses because it turns out, it’s both mysticism and time management to birth a creative life.This afternoon workshop will lead participants through writing, brainstorming, and organizing exercises to support student’s individual creative practices. Participants will spend time soul-searching, goal-setting, and identifying when, how, and with who their art dreams will come true this year. Students will leave with a guide for their creative practice and tools for reaching their biggest creative goal. Mostly, you’ll commit to your creative practice as a container to make your most important work right now. Based on ten years of focusing on the slow fashion project, Make Thrift Mend, and twenty-five years of working in the arts, I will share my personal approach to creativity, work flow, and living a creative life while raising two children, running a small business, authoring three books, repairing an ancient farmhouse, and being a passionate, inspired, albeit often-distracted human.

This Class Is For You If:•	You consider yourself a creative person but want to better prioritize or support your creative time.•	You have a project in mind for this year but can’t seem to get to it. Or refine it. Or make it a priority in your week. Yet.•	You want to take a creative risk but you need some support. (Not because you aren't doing enough but because you are not a robot, you are a human. This class is for humans only!)•	You’d like to sell your work, exhibit your work, publish your work, launch a class, sew a dress, knit a sweater, redesign your studio, contact a curator, secure an agent, mend your clothes, or start a dye garden but you’d like more support. Even if you haven't told anyone you want this, you know you want this and you're willing to create some support for yourself to work towards it. (Note: This class is not a how-to craft class but a class about supporting your creative practice. It's about you! If you have questions about your project / ideas/ work fitting into this class structure, please contact me through the "contact" page on my website. All creative projects welcome--I provide the structure, you provide the art dream. Lastly, I will not be offering my personal or professional contacts to make your dreams come true but I will help you map your way to making your own connections. Yes you can! I did. You can too.)This Class Is NOT For You If:•	You think you need an art degree to be taken seriously as an artist.•	You think you need a writing degree to be taken seriously as a writer.•	You aren't willing to carve out 15-30 minutes a day, most days, to work towards your creative dream.•	You aren’t willing to make mistakes or take creative risks and keep making work anyway.•	You want me to tell you exactly how you should be a successful creative person (I already think you’re a successful creative person and I might not even know you! Plus, this isn’t a class about precision or replication, it’s about brainstorming, map-making, and putting your biggest creative dream right now into action.)•	You don’t like chocolate. I’m sorry I just don’t think it’s going to work out!

Materials to Bring to Class<ul><li>An idea of a creative project you'd like to turn into reality in 2023. It doesn't have to be underway, it doesn't have to be finished, but you should have some project or goal in mind that you'd like to realize in 2023.</li></ul><ul><li>A notebook, pencil, and calendar system that you already use regularly (your cell phone, laptop, planner, paper calendar, etc.). </li></ul><ul><li>One tangible item that inspires you deeply and you're willing to share--could be a painting, your grandmother's quilt, or a quote from your favorite book.</li></ul><ul><li>A willingness to share your creative dreams with a small, supportive, private work group.</li></ul>Class Format<ul><li>This class will take place live on Zoom for three hours over one afternoon with a break. It will be recorded for all students and the recording will be made available within 7 days of the live workshop. Students will journal, map, and make plans to support their work.</li></ul><ul><li>Class will be broken into three sessions: A brainstorming and soul-searching session to gain clarity on the one creative dream that feels most urgent right now; A work session to create a document that will serve as a map for your creative practice; A work session to identify when, how, and with who this work will move forward this year.</li></ul><ul><li>Recordings will only be intended for students personal use—no public recordings will ever be shared and we will respect each other’s most intimate art dreams. </li></ul><ul><li>There are no refunds for this class. </li></ul>NOTE: I am not a therapist, counselor, or trained mental health provider. I am an artist and author excited to share my personal creative process to help other creative folks work towards their art dreams. I cannot provide mental health advice nor be held responsible for how this class might, unintentionally, affect mental health if any content is intimately revealing or triggering. I will do my best to create a safe, fun, supportive class offering; lead the prompts with tenderness and thoughtfulness; and allow for flexibility in how/ if you share personal insights. You can leave your camera on or off. You can participate in comments or not. It's up to you. All content will be kept private for class participants only but will be recorded for students to review after class. Thank you!

Teacher BioKatrina Rodabaugh is an artist, writer, and teacher working across disciplines to explore environmental and social issues through craft techniques. Mostly, she rethinks the relationship between fiber art, sustainability, and fashion. She’s the author of three books including Make Thrift Mend (2021), Mending Matters (2018), and The Paper Playhouse (2015). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Selvedge Magazine, Sunset magazine, Taproot magazine, Tauko magazine, and more.Katrina earned a BA in Environmental Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing/ Poetry though her fiber arts training started as a child at the side of her mother’s sewing machine. She teaches online and in-person, writes for digital and print publications, and designs goods for her online shop. She lives with her husband, two sons, eleven chickens, hive of honeybees, and many dye plants in a very old farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of NY. She works to inspire and support folks to lead creative, sustainably-minded, decidedly hopeful lives. www.katrinarodabaugh.com

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