Sandra Brownlee and Anne West

Tactile Notebooks

Course Description
In this workshop Sandra Brownlee and Anne West, who have enjoyed thirty years of artistic exchange, will help you find your own living language through the creation of a vibrant notebook practice. Art and poetry emerge when we observe and listen closely to our own direct sensory experiences and then respond by means of visual forms and words to that which kindles our imagination. Each day, within the charged space of a “sense studio,” we will create tactile pages, playing with materials, techniques, and words as a way to make concrete the vital elements of our experience. At the end of the week, we will stitch together our pages to make our own books, creating a rich, personal, and vivid record of discoveries accumulated through images, words, and stories. We hope that this workshop experience and the book itself will heighten our sensory awareness and deepen our understanding of our unique vision.