Squash Blossom Box with Nancy Akerly (Online)

Schedule:  Feb 6, 2021: 9:30am - 12:30am (CT); 
10:30am - 1:30pm (ET); 8:30am - 11:30am (MT); 7:30am - 10:30am (PT) 

We will make a charming box using ages old Cartonnage techniques online via Zoom. The Squash Blossom Box, based on a Japanese design, is simple but appears to be complex. You will need some basic tools, plus materials can be ordered. You will need: cutting mat, utility knife, Elmer’s Glue or PVA glue, tape, mechanical pencil, non-slip ruler, bone folder, decorative objects like beads, shells, etc. (optional). A pre-class letter will be sent by Nancy.

Location/Venue: Online with The Clearing Folk School
For more info & pictures: https://theclearing.org/wp/classes/winter/class-description/?id=25
Cost/Fee: $20
Material/Studio fee: $25 materials and shipping

Their workshop calendar: https://theclearing.org/wp/classes/winter/

Instructor and bio: Nancy Akerly is an artist passionate about everything paper: origami, nontraditional paper folding, box making (cartonnage), bookbinding and paper marbling. She was born on the Southside of Chicago and raised in a northern suburb, Nancy spent her summers on her grandparent’s farm in Sister Bay,WI, working in their family cherry orchard. She got her first teaching job at Sister Bay School - after teaching in Europe for DoDDS for a few years she returned to Door County and achieved a Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis on Gifted and Talented Learners and Creativity. She taught 39 years and retired from Gibraltar Schools in 2010. She then focused my energies on the business she had begun several years before, Liberty Grove Paper Arts.