SpaceCraft — Beaded & Beautiful Workshop ($40)
Workshop participants can expect to leave with the skills of being able to make their own beaded jewelry. Specifically in this workshop, we will learn to make beaded necklaces or waist beads.
There will be two styles they can try making that mirrors and models my current work and the materials I have access to.
Through beads and jewelry making, we will explore how objects can tell powerful stories and do the work of speaking for and through us by way of texture, color, and shape.
There will be several different types of beads and methods to explore for variety and opportunity to play, experiment, and try out different things.
Meet your Instructor - Jaz Parks with Childlike Creative
jasmine “jaz” parks is the one woman show that is childlike creative. she initially created the business and brand as a way of coping with the horrors she experienced while being in grad school in July of 2022. She considers this project her first real push towards being a working artist and entrepreneur in a serious and potentially viable way.
she is very influenced and inspired by children and how they navigate and negotiate life, experimenting and responding to everything. they are candid, honest, bold, and they believe they can do anything and be anything or anyone. they decide to do something, and then they do. she admires their resilience, reliance on intuition, playful experimentation, and simple discovery of what it is like to be a human in the world through questioning and doing.
childlike creative is the manifestation of both her personal ethos as an artist and the name of the business and brand she has created. her various degrees and exploration of academic disciplines mixed with her broad work and life experiences have resulted in an interesting personal and professional approach to creating art. in her visual, digital, or craft art, she often uses combinations of words, textures, color, and shapes to process and work through concepts, thoughts, feelings, and ideas of her inner world as a way to make sense of them and the world around her. much of her work is inspired by nostalgia and capturing universal human experience through very specific-to-her images, objects, and stories. as a writer and musician, the process of her practice is much more intuitive.
Workshop admission includes
Workshop instruction + materials
Admission to the Artists Playground (BYO-Craft Night)
Snacks and refreshments