On the Road: Teaching Fabric Collage at Woodland Ridge in Downsville, WI, Part 2—May 2024
July 13, 2024
On the Road: Teaching Fabric Collage at Woodland Ridge in Downsville, WI, Part 2—May 2024Susan2024-07-13T07:02:53-04:00
We’re heading back to Woodland Ridge Retreat this week, back to the very end of April and beginning of May, back to a lovely week of a Wisconsin springtime. As I’m currently surrounded by summer’s heat and humidity (as so many of us are!), it’s a nice memory trip to a kinder and gentler season. Please come join me as we gaze upon some cool collages created by the second grouping of my stellar students from this 2024 fabric collage class. Last week I featured six of the 12 students in the workshop. This week I introduce you to the other six women with whom I spent a wonderful week creating excellent work—such as Barb Zeleznik, in photo above.
Now, drumroll (for a second time, please), meet my second set of six students and their fantastical, awesome, marvelous fabric-filled collages from this year’s Woodland Ridge Retreat! If you missed my first set of students from this class, check out last week’s Part 1 post.
Be sure to click on any of the smaller photos to see them larger and to scroll through the gallery.
Virginia Dambach
Peggy Spitzer
Nancy Bonkowski
Jackie Zydeck
Barb Zeleznik
Bonnie Anderson
As promised in last week’s post, here’s a few closing photos of lovely walks with my students, through the springtime woods and fields behind the retreat center.
One afternoon, I almost stepped on a tiny turtle in the retreat’s parking area. Chris told us he was on his way to one of the ponds down the hill. We gave him a lift in that direction and he at least made it safely to his destination.
Every trip I make to Woodland Ridge, I need to walk out to the watercress stream—a green band in the landscape, even when winding through snow cover. Below left, is a photo from my last visit to see in it in November 2022. This year in May, I led my trail mates to the location and almost missed it! This time around the stream I was expecting was an elevated mound of watercress—I didn’t realize watercress grew that large! Amazing, and oh so spicy.
I think I’ll bring along some watercress recipes when I return to Wisconsin in 2025—I’ll share the results! 😉
Hello Susan! I always enjoy your write ups of the participants and their collages. It is not lost on me or others, that you always take the time to get to know your students. Not just their artwork, but who they are as people. From the looks of things, they certainly have caught on to the process and have created beautiful pieces, so I would say it was another very successful and fun retreat! Good for you and good for the artists who joined you!
Thank you for that, Tracy! I have to say I do seem to have lovely people as students who are quite dedicated to learning—just like you:-). Take care, S.
Hello Susan! I always enjoy your write ups of the participants and their collages. It is not lost on me or others, that you always take the time to get to know your students. Not just their artwork, but who they are as people. From the looks of things, they certainly have caught on to the process and have created beautiful pieces, so I would say it was another very successful and fun retreat! Good for you and good for the artists who joined you!
Thank you for that, Tracy! I have to say I do seem to have lovely people as students who are quite dedicated to learning—just like you:-). Take care, S.