Come discover the world of visual storytelling through the lens of folk and fairy tales. We'll focus on the histories and DNA of folktales from New Mexico and around the world and the telling and retelling, imagining and re-imagining of ancient tales as a way of allowing the stories that live inside us to emerge. We’ll listen to music, consider the definitions of folk art and use ancient stories as the seeds to imagine new ones.

Alongside the beautiful watercolors of LDBA, You will be encouraged to try mixing media to create dynamic visual narratives in color and black and white, in watercolor and ink, pencil and crayon. We’ll spend the day in conversation, playing with images and tell a few stories. For artists and storytellers new and old.
Come with a favorite folk or fairy tale and an open mind.

Some books to inspire: Favorite Folktales From Around the World edited by Jane Yolen My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer

Deborah Stein lives, paints and writes in NYC and the Embudo Valley in New Mexico. She teaches visual narrative workshops, runs twice a year artist residencies and is working on her first picture book this year. Deborah studied the passing on of traditional arts with a toymaker family in Northern India, worked with NYC school kids as a museum educator at the Museum of Arts & Design and has traveled and taught alternative arts education workshops about seeing and translating the world in new ways for adults and children for a lifetime.

Saturday, October 22
12-3 pm
Class limit: 8

La Petite Ecole
717 Canyon Road Unit C
Santa Fe, NM 87501