Personal Dictionary of Symbols

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October 25th, 2014 10:00 AM

  • Instructor: Taska Sanford
  • Workshop Type: Arts
  • Workshop Status: Closed
  • Workshop Start: October 25th, 2014 10:00 AM
  • Workshop End: October 25th, 2014 4:00 PM
  • Sessions: 1

In this introductory class each student will explore different ways to find and develop symbols they are already attracted to. Then they will create a symbol dictionary to take home to use as inspiration and reference in their future work. Techniques that they will employ will be storytelling, doodling, timed sketching, stamp carving.

Students will end the class with an ability to recognize and discuss the use of symbols in artwork. They will have new techniques to draw upon their personal lives to enhance their own artwork with symbols. Each student will leave the class with a booklet of symbols that they can add to later and a carved rubber stamp of one of their new discovered symbols.

Materials to Bring: 

  • Your favorite mark-making tools (2-3)
  • Images of works of art that contain meaningful or stirring symbols (1-2)
  • One (1) object that is special and meaningful in your life. Please choose an object that you can bring to class, not a photo.

Workshop + Materials Fee: $150

Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 2014 | 10:00am-4:00pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

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About the Instructor | Taska Sanford

Taska's current work is best described as Mysteriousity: Always on the quest for the curious and the mysterious. She is seeking out doors with keys, boxes to be opened, treasures to be revealed from under dirt and darkness. She is working in artist books, assemblage, installations, painting, and animal paper dolls. Animals, bones, dreams, windows, and handwritten letters find their way into her work and act as guides or directions for the viewer.
 


Born and raised in Memphis, TN, she spent her childhood summer nights out on the back porch with her grandmother. She drew on the wall while her Granny depicted bygone scenes of Southern life in acrylics.

After a formal rigorous training in fine art Taska struck out to earn her BFA at Cleveland Institute of Art in Textiles. In art school she learned how to dissect her psyche to find compelling themes for her art. Settling in the California Bay Area with three cats and her husband and baby daughter keeps her close to nature, so she can pursue art, and rock climbing. After many years of making art fit in between the cracks of a full time desk job she now makes art her full time vocation.