Join us for a relaxing and fun weekend mixed media art retreat! The total registration fee is $380 but you can reserve your spot today for just $180 then you will receive an invoice for the remaining $200 balance due in February 2025. Space is limited to 24 participants so reserve your spot today! 

Workshops and Activities

Opening Reception

Friday 5-8

Friday night we'll have party snacks and beverages while we get to know each other! We'll talk about the upcoming workshops, meet our instructors, and address any questions you might have.

Tie Dyeing with Rachel Huff

Saturday 9-12:30

Saturday 2-5:30

Influenced by the colors of a vintage spring, we will be altering three brushes and a bookmark inspired by artist Kim Collister. If time allows we may add a little something to the mix. 

Rosemary Morris from Fort Smith, AR discovered mixed media and junk journals 8 years ago. She realized she could incorporate her background in home construction and architecture into this art form. You can see that influence when she uses wood, plaster, and metal in her bookmaking and art.

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Crossed-Structure Binding with Lesha Shaver

Sunday 9-12:30

This is the perfect book for artists. Not only is it relatively simple to sew (always a bonus), it can also be made using various materials from leather to fabric to paper. In this session we will decorate one of the covers with a combination of paint and/or collage and then sew it all together for a finished book that will showcase your personal flair as an artist integrated into a beautiful complex-looking cover with exposed sewing. This is a book you will go home and recreate again and again!

Lesha Shaver from Fayetteville, AR holds an MFA in Poetry from Purdue University and is a practicing traditional hand bookbinder and member of the Guild of Book Workers. Her love of bookbinding and education began in Memphis where she took private lessons and continued in the form of an apprenticeship in Albuquerque, New Mexico at Against the Grain Books with additional advanced training at J&B Quality Bindery in Little Rock, Arkansas and the School for Formal Bookbinding in Plains, Pennsylvania. She opened Little Mountain Bindery in 2005 where she enjoys teaching community-based classes in traditional and nontraditional book arts and caring for books. 

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Abstract Art Panel with Stacy Spangler

Sunday 2-5:30

You will complete an 8x8 abstract work of art created from hand painted papers on a cradled wood panel with guidance on color, composition and pattern basics as well as numerous techniques to create unique papers. You will also leave with a one of a kind collection of hand painted papers to use in future artwork, journals, and more.

Stacy Spangler is a mixed media artist from Goshen, AR. She has a love for creating fun, colorful art with lots of texture and layers. Her playful style has been greatly influenced by over a decade of teaching art to children. She has a passion for teaching and encouraging others to grow their artistic ability, embrace their own style, and use their creative talents to bring more joy into the world, and intentionally serve and glorify the hope we find in Jesus. She currently sells her artwork online and in retail boutiques and galleries in the South. She also teaches mixed media courses online, and in person through workshops and retreats. Stacy and her husband Shannon have three adult children and a grandson. In her spare time she enjoys entertaining family and friends, outdoor activities, reading, art journaling, attending sporting events and Bible studies.

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Refund policy

Registration will close on March 15, 2025 or when all 24 spots have been filled, whichever comes first. Your registration includes a $50 non refundable administrative fee. If you must cancel your reservation, the remainder of your prepaid fees can be refunded up until March 15. There will be no refunds after that date but you may transfer your reservation to someone else.