Open Studios School of Art

Clementine Open Studios now offers art classes for everyone, children through adults.

Mary Yaeger

Tools for Artmaking
The class will focus on the elements of visual design including basic concepts, vocabulary, visual organization, and color theory. You will gain personal insights into thinking creatively as well as how to look at and appreciate art better! In essence, you will learn in a condensed fashion what every first-year art or design student learns at the college level, with attention paid to the needs and interests of the students.
*Materials list: water based paints, brushes, Bristol board, digital media and/or other. Contact instructor to discuss your preference.

Blogging for Artists
This class will enable you to master the basics, including defining your blog, setting up a banner and template, writing commentary and formatting and uploading photos. We will use wordpress, one of the best and most professional services. You will need to have a series of images you want to post online. Please bring a CD or your digital camera to the first class. Slides can also be used but there will be a fee for scanning them to digital.

Artist Phone: 303.415.1057

Artist Email: info@maryyaeger.com

 

Mary’s hand-embroidered “female merit badges” have appeared in a number of publications, including Glamour, Harper’s and Ms. Magazine.  The emblems, similar to scout badges, depict the common events and rites of passage that women experience on the journey from youth to maturity.  The work is intended to be humorous and to provoke thought about how cultural notions of femininity affect a woman’s sense of identity and well-being.

As well as embroidery, Yaeger mixes beadweaving, painting, sculpting, computer animation and graphics into illustrations and miniature wearable sculptures.  In work such as Christine de Pisan at her Computer, she blends historical and contemporary imagery.  This work was reproduced as an illustration in Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Knopf, 2007. Yaeger has a BS in Design and MFA in Textile Arts and Costume Design from the University of California, Davis.

Mary has had a website since 1998 has been using the computer creatively since 1980. She is great with Photoshop, Windows Office, html and a host of other software applications. Some of her work using computer imagery became part of the corporate collection of Quest Communications, in their “star wars” building. Her blogs: animary.wordpress.com, stabbed.wordpress.com, oxunc.wordpress.com (group site Yaeger no longer maintains)

 

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