Zines are mini art journals made from a single sheet of paper that can be collaged, stenciled, painted and customized in a variety of shapes. Combine your art-making and journaling skills! No experience required!

Supplies need:
• glue stick
• watercolor or acrylic paints
• apron
• watercup
• other supplies provided
A $5 materials fee is included in the tuition cost.

Lunch break: We will take a 3o-minute lunch break. There is refrigerator outside the classroom for student use if you wish to bring a bag lunch. The Fresh Market is also steps away from the gallery, and offers an assortment of prepared foods.

About the instructor
Kirah is a lifelong artist with a foundation based on the fundamentals of visual storytelling. Her paintings and expressive mixed media works are deeply personal, inspired by memory, travel, the poetics of space, and patterns inherent to nature and humanness. Kirah is a dynamic instructor, lecturer, mentor and coach, leading custom studio and plein air courses for both beginner and professional artists, regionally and internationally. She is an adjunct instructor at both Cape Fear and Johnston Community Colleges. As an award-winning artist and illustrator, Kirah brings rich insight to materials and traditional and contemporary processes. You will find her splitting time between her home in the Cape Fear region of NC and Umbria, Italy.

• Date: Tuesday, April 7
• Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
• Location: Art in Bloom Gallery classroom
• Instructor: Kirah Van Sickle