A one-hour workshop, live on Zoom
A Window into Inspiration
This is a beginner-friendly, one-hour online design workshop. No drawing skill required. If you can hold a piece of paper and make a mark, you can do this.
Inspiration isn’t something that strikes, it’s something you go find!
November 4, live on Zoom
7-8 pm eastern
A simple looking exercise that turns your kitchen, your porch, and your bookshelf into dozens of starting points for your own work.
Create dozens of ideas that are entirely unique to your mind and your vision. No drawing skill required. If you can hold a piece of paper and make a mark, you can do this.
Most of us were taught that a design either comes to you or it doesn’t. That’s why so many good makers end up staring at a blank design wall.
This hour gives you something better than waiting: a repeatable way to find original compositions in whatever room you happen to be standing in.
What You'll Get
- A page of original designs that are entirely yours, pulled out of a room you’ve walked past a thousand times
- A method you can use anywhere, forever, in a hotel room, a waiting room, or on a walk around the block
- An end to the blank design wall, because you’ll never again have to invent something out of nothing
- Eyes that see differently, so the blinds, the bookshelf, and the shadows on the floor start handing you compositions
- Proof that you have ideas, which is the part most people quietly doubt
Easy Supplies
Nothing to buy and nothing to prepare. Everything on this list is already in your house.
- Several sheets of blank paper or sketchbook
- Sharpie or black pen
- Optional soft lead pencil
- Paper scissors
- Fabric scraps and glue stick
- Optional - smart phone with camera
Meet Your Teacher: Lyric Montgomery Kinard
Lyric is an award winning textile artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students possesses. With playful support and gentle encouragement she creates a classroom environment where discovery and joy are the products of a willingness to freely play and fearlessly learn.
One of Lyric’s greatest joys is sharing that moment when a student realizes that they do, indeed, have a spark of creativity inside them. She then gives them the tools to fan that spark into a steady flame.
As a recognition of her skill in the classroom she has been named the IAPQ Teacher of the Year for 2011. She is the author of the book Art + Quilt: design principles and creativity exercises. She has written extensively for Quilting Arts and a number of other magazines, appeared on Quilting Arts TV, and The Quilt Show, and is co-founder of the Global Quilt Connection.
Do I need any experience?
No. These sessions are built for people at every stage, and most of them assume you’re starting fresh. If you’ve been making work for forty years you’ll still find something in it, usually a shortcut you never thought to try.
How long is it, really?
One hour, start to finish. I teach the whole thing live and we make something together while we’re there. No homework, no part two. Sometimes we stay on extra time just for fun but all of the teaching will happen in hour 1.
What if I can’t make it live?
This is a Live-Only workshop for the public. The recording will only available to members of the Vision and Voice Artist Collective.
I’m not very creative. Is this still for me?
This is the one I hear most, and the honest answer is that “creative” isn’t a type of person. It’s a thing you practice. These sessions are short and low stakes on purpose, which is exactly the condition under which people surprise themselves.
Lyric Kinard
Artist, Author, Educator
