UNLEASH YOUR INNER ARTIST: INTRODUCTION TO JUNK JOURNALING

Monday, January 12
1:00-3:00pm
Cost: $38 nonmember, $26 member, $10 platinum
Registration deadline: Monday, January 5

Do you love vintage style, collecting ephemera, and giving new life to old things? Then join us for this hands-on workshop and discover the magic of Junk Journaling!

A Junk Journal is a beautiful, personalized book made from recycled and found materials like old book pages, envelopes, maps, lace, and scrap paper. It’s a space for creative play, memory-keeping, and mixed-media art. Journaling is beneficial for mental and emotional clarity, stress reduction and processing thoughts and emotions.

In this beginner-friendly class, you will: 

• Learn how to construct a basic journal cover.
• Explore techniques for distressing paper, adding pockets, and creating interactive elements.
• Get tips on where to find the best "junk" and how to build visually rich, layered pages.
• Walk away with your own unique, in-progress Junk Journal and the skills to keep creating!

Bring your own papers, lace, buttons…FiftyNorth will provide the 6” X 8” spiral bound journal and some decorative paper.

Instructor: Hilda Lucas-Guzman
Capacity: 4 minimum, 10 maximum
Space: Room 105

ZENTANGLE WITH HEART

Monday, January 26, 2026
1:00-3:00pm
Capacity: Minimum: 3, Maximum: 12
Cost: $30 nonmember, $26 member, $10 platinum

POUR YOUR HEART INTO CREATING ZENTANGLE INSPIRED VALENTINES.

The ZENTANGLE art form will be taught using the heart shape as the focus for patterned compositions on paper.  The small papers created will then be repurposed into your personal valentines.  We will make traditional style cards and a fun “message in a box” which will contain a pop out accordion folded valentine message.

Joyce Francis, a Certified Zentangle Teacher, will lead you step-by-step, in designing striking papers and constructing spectacular valentines.  No previous experience with Zentangle is required to join this class.  It’s simple.  It’s fun.  It’s relaxing.  You will leave class inspired and with valentines ready to pop into the mail.

WHAT IS ZENTANGLE?  The concept of Zentangle is a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes.  Patterns, called tangles, are chosen from the vast collection to be found in books and on the internet.  Each tangle pattern is broken down into 3-5 simple steps.

Joyce Francis is a calligrapher and paper artist living in Northfield, Minnesota.  A maniac for color, she has a lifetime love of paper, ink, paint, and letters.  Over the years her work has expanded beyond calligraphy into development of a line of Zentangle-inspired cards.  In October of 2011, Joyce became a “CZT”, Certified Zentangle Teacher.  She has been “tangling” ever since!

All handouts, supplies, and tools will be provided.

Instructor: Joyce Francis
Space: Room 102

Dulcimer Workshop
Wednesday, February 11, 1:00-2:00pm 
Cost: Free
Registration deadline: February 4

Ross Sutter will bring a set of easy to play one-string dulcimers so that every participant will have the opportunity to play their own instrument. In the course of just a short 45-minute workshop every participant will learn to play simple tunes on the instrument using a number system so that even those who can’t read music will be successful. 

This is a project that has been developed over the past twenty-seven years with some of the finest music teachers and classroom teachers in Minnesota. In fact, two of the people who were most instrumental in developing this workshop with Ross are retired music teachers who live in Northfield: Dr. Elizabeth Olson and Nancy Huppert. Both had long and stellar careers teaching in Minneapolis and Farmington School districts. 

For the past three years Ross has been giving monthly workshops at the Schubert Club Music Museum teaching participants of all ages, from five to eighty-five years old, how to play the one-string dulcimer. This year the staff at the Schubert Club Music Museum have decided to take the workshop on the road and will be doing workshops in Northfield and Farmington. 

To learn more about this project and see some of the instruments follow this link to Ross Sutter’s web site: https://rosssutter.com/the-dulcimer-project

This workshop is presented in partnership with Schubert Club.  
Instructor: Ross Sutter
Capacity: 30
Space: Room 103