Whispering Woodlands 2020
Shawn Sheehy

Please Note:  Living on the premises are several cats. This is their home, but they are willing to share both time and space with you. If needed they can be enclosed in seperate space from workshop partcipants.

Whispering Woodlands * 1600 Speedway Rd * Verona, WI * USA * 53593 *
Phone: (608) 848-9761

 

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Rock Wall leading to meadow

 

 

 

 

Just a little note:

Many of the classes I personally offer are meant to provide a progression in inter-related book arts opportunities. It is not necessary to take them in any specific order, but understand many are complimentary in nature. Likewise, a good foundational class in tools and working methods will be to your advantage for intermediate or advanced work. By taking a decorative paper workshop, you may utilize your work in a book structure as text pages, end sheets or as a cover. Similarily, by taking papermaking you may use the results in a book or as a substrate for a print, drawing, painting, or with letterpress.   Think of them as part of, or a means to an end, not the end in themselves. (not that many can not stand alone and be appreciated as completed work) It is also for this reason I repeat some foundational workshops more often. Understanding the method to my madness may be helpful when making workshop choices.

 

 

a Retreat to Nature for the Creative Mind

Shawn Sheehy

 

 

 

 

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Wild Flower Samples

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Wild Flower Samples

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Wild Flower Samples

 

Pop-Up Native Wildflowers   Shawn Sheehy

 

Celebrate spring with flowers! Nearly all pop-ups are built from just two simple structures. Learning how and when to use those two structures—and to see the broad range of what they can do—can open the door to a lifetime of exploration. In this workshop, you will use these two structures to create pop-up cards featuring wildflowers native to the Midwest, such as trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, and columbine. No experience is necessary, but previous experience in fiber arts and/or paper craft will speed your progress. This content readily accommodates beginners and advanced makers alike. You will leave the class with a completed set of pop-up flower cards and a good understanding of the tools and techniques of pop-up engineering.  Sat & Sun, April 21 & 22,  10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.  $290/$20 materials

 

 

Pop-up Wildflowers Supply List

  Mother's Day is just weeks away.
Brighten the day of these special women with a personally made wildflower pop-up card.

 A Terrific way to Celebrate

Earth Day, April 22 

making wildflower pop-up cards!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Shawn Sheehy

 Shawn Sheehy has a B.S. in Education from Valparaiso University, an A.A. in Graphic Design from Madison College, and an MFA in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago. He has been teaching book arts courses and workshops on the national level—primarily in paper making and paper engineering—since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by numerous prestigious universities, including Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. His pop-ups have been featured twice in both Hand Papermaking magazine and Vintage magazine. Sheehy's trade pop-up book Welcome to the Neighborwood (a mass-market version of his artist book) was released in 2015, winning numerous awards. He's currently at work on his next trade book—a mass-market version of his artist book Beyond the Sixth Extinction—and it will be released through Candlewick in Autumn 2018. Visit him at shawnsheehy.com."

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