Expand your modes of photographic self-expression through the incorporation of symbolism and metaphor to make uncommonly powerful portraits. Receive guidance on strategies for exposure, composition, and design when using your own cellphone as a camera. By the end of the workshop, participants will have gained valuable insight into personal expression and narrative development, and everyone will have the option to contribute their work(s) to a group exhibition or online publication opportunity.

In this workshop we will explore the personal healing process through the art odyssey doll making. Discover your personal power and healing by creating your own talisman doll. Explore color and symbolism as a key element to the healing process. 

Puppet yourself! Bring the 2D version of yourself to life using slim cardboard, joints and wooden rods. Learn techniques in articulated puppetry from the team behind the SHOW OF HANDS Puppet Festival; Lizzy DuQuette, Courtney Combs-Mock, and Linda Kunick.

Stick around at V+V and make some stickers with Missy D'Angelo and Micah Marks! Learn how to make DIY stickers using digital art + printable sticker paper, as well as without any tech at all!

This workshop is anti-fast fashion! Do you have clothes you want to keep but can’t because of an unsightly stain or tear? Do you long for new clothes but lack the finances to go on a big shopping spree? Great! Come to this workshop and we will MEND, ALTER, or PATCH that shirt!!!! Queer people are so often at the forefront of fashion, yet so often poor?? Turns out these things go hand in hand! Workshop participants will also receive materials and techniques to enhance clothing with patch making.

Follow along the entire process of putting on drag makeup from Molly Mormen and paint your own face. Use whatever makeup you have from your home and transform your face with bold makeup. Learn about the heroes that used drag as a form of activism and its history within the LGBT community.

After the workshop we invite you to join our queens in the ISQCCBE and the haus of V.Envy at the Northside Tavern for Bands And Drag! No cover to enjoy live music, drag, and a V+V silent art auction; all profits from the night support the Visionaries + Voices studios.

Art can be a powerful means of communication, used to convey complex emotions, ideas, and concepts in a way that words often cannot. Using templates designed by Step Wadman, workshop participants will be use folding, cutting, and ripping techniques to build paper sculptures. These sculptures can be used to communicate with other people through eye contact, speech, and hearing. Add design and color to your sculpture to provoke a range of emotion and thought.

In the Visionaries and Voices Northside studio filled with vibrant beads and plenty of string, friends and strangers alike come together to learn the art of making friendship bracelets. Guided by Nick Paddock and V+V artist Jackie Fischer, they exchange techniques, stories, and laughter while providing guidance. As each bracelet takes shape, so does the sense of camaraderie and connection among the creative participants.

Practice your screens and blocks in this D.I.Y. screen printing workshop using embroidery hoops. We will use easy to find and affordable materials to make custom prints. stickers, patches and more!

Drew Yascoe is the Education Coordinator at Visionaries + Voices, working with a wide age range in arts education. Drew is a part of the Teaching Artist Program, where V+V artists are trained to develop, prepare, and present lessons based on their personal artwork. Drew is a professional screen printer available for hire for t shirt, posters, and live printing events. https://www.lookwhatidrew.com/digital-and-print

Brian Bitter is an emerging artist at Visionaries + Voices who works with broad materials in his art work. Shifting through phases, Brian experiments with his cartoonish style in ceramics, painting, drawing, fiber, and beading. The subjects in Brian's art reflects his interests and life experiences in a positive light; even monsters are kind in the world he creates.