Workshops Listed by Type

The following information is specifically for IN-PERSON classes. Not all courses are currently available in a live-virtual format but please feel free to ask about any of them. Your request might push your favorite to the top of the "get it ready" list.

SURFACE DESIGN CLASSES Learn painting/dyeing techniques that you can practice and use in your work at home. These classes require access to water. If your space doesn't have hard/washable flooring we will need to lay down plastic to protect carpeting from paint.

• Surface Design Sampler Platter 6hrs
• Winged Things: Layered Screen Printing 3hrs
• Photos + Foil = Fun! 3hrs
• Print, Paint, Play  3hrs
• Paint Your Shoes 3 or 6 hrs
• Picture It Framed 6 hrs (beading a small piece + painting a canvas as frame)

ART & DESIGN CLASSES Learn design fundamentals. You can learn to think and see and create like an artist!!! (Yes, I’m talking to YOU!)

• The Elements of Art for Quilters 6hrs
• Abstract-a-Licious 6hrs
• Creative Collaborative Collage 3hrs
• The Artists Eye: Elemental Critique and Analysis 3 or 6hrs

PROJECT CLASSES Create a small art quilt or book cover - but only if you want to. These classes still focus primarily on learning new techniques, which you can apply to a small project during class if you choose to.

• Bead It Like You Mean It 6hrs
• Surface Design Sampler Platter 6hrs
• Photos + Foil + Fun! 3hrs
• Abstract-a-Licious 6hrs
• Creative Collaborative Collage 3hrs
• Winged Things: Layered Screen Printing 3hrs
• Picture It Framed 6 hrs
• Playful Portraiture 6 hrs

CLASSES WITH EASY SUPPLY LISTS Students pay a supply fee and Lyric brings almost everything for you and/or an optional kit is offered so students don’t have to worry about bringing the “right” supplies.

• Bead It Like You Mean It 3 or 6hrs
• Surface Design Sampler Platter 6hrs - multi-day
• Abstract-a-Licious 6hrs
• Creative Collaborative Collage 3hrs
• The Elements of Art for Quilters 6hrs
• Photos + Foil + Fun! 3hrs
• The Artists Eye: Elemental Critique and Analysis 3 or 6hrs
• Paint Your Shoes 3hrs
• Winged Things: Layered Screen Printing 3hrs
• Picture It Framed 6 hrs

Please e-mail Lyric for details about workshops.

MULTI-DAY CLASSES These classes work perfectly for multi-day classes or in a retreat setting. Please inquire for details. Each class can be custom tailored for content and length to your group's interests.

• The Elements of Art for Quilters: A Basic Design Intensive 2-5 days
• Masterclass for Quilters: An Advanced Design Intensive 4-5 days
• Surface Design Sampler Platter: Boost it up to an entree per day 2 - 5 days
• Playing With Paint: A Paint+Design Intensive 3 - 5 days

HALF-DAY CLASSES These classes fit nicely into 3 hours.

• Creative Collaborative Collage 3hrs
• Bead It Like You Mean It 3 or 6hrs
• Winged Things: Layered Screen Printing 3hrs
• Photos + Foil + Fun! 3hrs
• The Artists Eye: Elemental Critique and Analysis 3 hrs
• Paint Your Shoes 3hrs

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Why a booking fee for in-person? I take limited travel gigs. If you book me, then cancel because of low enrollment, you have taken a slot that could have gone to another guild. It is not an extra fee as long as you do not back out of our contract. It is deducted from the teaching fee charged when I arrive. Please make every effort to fill your workshops. Feel free to have Lyric "pop in" to a virtual guild meeting ahead of time to say hello and tell people about her upcoming workshops.

Why a higher cost per hour for a 3 hour class? Because it takes me as long to prepare for and set up and make kits for a 3 hour class as it does for a 6 hour class. It's typical to spend a full day prepping (making kits, ordering supplies, packing and shipping) for every class I teach.

Will you stay with a guild member to save on hotel costs? Sure. I do require a private room and bathroom and no children, smoking, or pets. I have enough annoying allergies that if I sleep in a house with pets I'll be coughing and wheezing and snarky and tired all the next day. That's not fun for me or the students in class! You can find a "care and feeding of lyric" F.A.Q. here.

LECTURES Lyric currently offers four lectures. Detailed descriptions can be found here.  The first two are powerpoint/slide type lectures. I bring my own equipment but you will need to have a room that can darken and have a screen or wall for me to project onto. The wearable art lecture can be turned into a really fun participants fashion show added into the wearables I have made.

• The Taming fo the Hues: a color play - teaches basic color theory in an entertaining and practically useful way.
• The Elements of Art for Every Quilter: teaches basic design in an understandable way to every kind of quilter.
• Living Lyrically: inspires everyone to make use of the creativity they have by finding inspiration, beauty, and joy everywhere they look.
• Playful Portraiture: making faces in fabric - an overview of many styles of quilted portraiture.
• Excuse Me, Is that a quilt you're wearing?: live fashion show with local participation.
• Want to Teach?: business development lecture for aspiring quilt-circuit teachers.
• Failure is an Option!: why making bad art is vital to good artists - more of a group discussion geared towards art quilters but applicable to anyone who MAKES things.

Hands-On Design Exercises are shorter (30-40 minute) events that are perfect for virtual guild meetings. Each one is an easy and popular exercise from one of her workshops that is engaging, fun, and educational for all guild members. They have very easy and short supply lists for members to have handy as Lyric teaches them useful design principles.

• A Window into Inspiration: create thumbnails for your own unique abstract designs.
• Cutting Edge Abstract Design: take a recognizable object and morph it into an abstract design all your own.
• Opposites Attract: an exercise teaching how complementary colors interact in your quilts.
• Silly Selfie Postcards: learn some easy portraiture concepts such as placement and proportion and make a seriously silly selfie.

Lyric has taught for every kind of venue from huge conferences to private studio lessons.

Let Lyric bring her passion for sparking the creativity in others to you!

Please e-mail Lyric for details about workshops.