Tell your story

through a mixed-media art retreat

and holiday in Montelparo, Italy!

You are invited to spend a very special mixed-media art holiday with me in the hilltop village of Montelparo in Le Marche, Italy. 

See the magic, feel the history, and hear the sounds of life in a medieval village. 

I will guide you in finding the magic of this enchanting landscape nestled between the mountains and the Adriatic Coast.

You will create a handcrafted artist book that you will uniquely fill with creations during our retreat.  We will work both in the studio and on field trips with paint, collage and mixed media projects that tell your story of this time and place.

All levels of skill are welcome for this retreat. Come and have an artistic adventure and journey in Italy with other artists!

Registration is open! Get all of the details and sign up here.

A case of curiosities

A Mixed Media Retreat with Seth Apter & Roxanne Evans stout

Fill your case and your soul with beautiful experiences

This week of art, beauty, creativity, and connection begins with a case. It can have many compartments of different sizes, or it can be one open space. Throughout the retreat, we will fill it with unique art pieces that we create, like handmade books, paintings, collages, assemblages, scrolls, shrines, and tapestries.

Imagine staying at the historical Mabel Dodge Luhan House, waking up each morning to a gourmet breakfast, then spending the day with creative souls, art lovers, and kindred spirits. We will immerse ourselves in creating, playing, exploring, and art-making to our heart’s content. Benefit from daily workshops provided by two different mixed-media artists!

Check out Seth Apter’s site for even more details!

wON’T YOU JOIN US FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL TIME IN A MAGICAL PLACE?

Your creative spirit will thank you!

This retreat filled quickly. Click the Register Now button above to e-mail me and be added to the waiting list!

A 14-day all-inclusive Art + Travel experience,

including a 4-day book-making workshop with me in Morocco.

This Art of Travel adventure in Morocco will begin in Marrakech, following the ancient caravan route over the High Atlas Mountains to the edge of the Sahara Desert. After a few days of journeying and treasure hunting, we will enjoy a 4-day book making experience in host Michelle Fletcher Atelier’s desert studio in Kasbah Aitisfoul.

Our art-making days will unfold in a rhythm to suit you: explore a little or a lot, in and around the workshop. During free time you can chase the light with your camera, draw in your sketchbook, explore the local area, or anything else! The studio will remain open after hours if anyone wants to keep their hands creating.

Registration is open! Get all of the amazing details about our days here!

Create a book inspired by the landscapes and seascapes of the Pacific Northwest!

Gather with me in the spring at Pacific NorthWest Art School on Whidbey Island in Washington state, and I will teach you my favorite mixed-media techniques and guide you in creating your own artist book. We will spend three glorious days relishing in nature and art making.

We will work on watercolor paper for your book pages, but we’ll also be glazing and mark-making on deli-paper, then using these colorful creations for collaging. As you begin constructing your books, you’ll give them a new dimension by cutting and tearing windows out of the pages. These portals will give a view of the next pages and make your books even more layered and unique.

To finish, we will add embellishments, stitching and weaving your windows and binding your books together with wire and a piece of driftwood for the spine. You will go home filled with inspiration and holding a beautiful, unique artist book that you love!

Registration is open! Get all the details here.

Both our March and June Case of Curiosities workshops are full, but you can e-mail me to be added to the waitlist!

Join Seth Apter and me for a week of mixed-media art-making in the enchanting land of Taos, New Mexico, in either March or June!

Projects include but are not limited to: small books of every kind, assemblages, wrappings, hangings, and scrolls.

Materials include but are not limited to: rusty metal, vintage treasures, fabric and paper, thread and beads, wire, sticks, and other natural finds.

Gather with Roxanne Evans Stout to create a book that is dedicated to the birds, insects, and the winged creatures that we all love.

Together we will delve into the concepts of nests and the pathways that we travel to and from the very place that is home to us in our hearts.

Join Roxanne for a three day workshop hosted by Annie Hooten in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

During our time together Roxanne will guide you in creating several unique art pieces including: a hand crafted artist book, a woven piece that begins with a small box, a Talisman, a scroll, and so much more.

You will paint, collage, stitch, bundle, weave, wire, attach, assemble and build all to your hearts content

All of these treasures will nest safely inside a basket or a vessel.

Roxanne will be there to teach and guide you for three days,

with detailed demonstrations and heart-felt mentoring!

Registration is Open!!

Gather with Roxanne Evans Stout in October 2020, and create a book that is dedicated to the birds, insects, and the winged creatures that we all love. Together we will delve into the concepts of nests and the pathways that we travel to and from the very place that is home to us in our hearts.

HAVE YOU LONGED TO JOURNEY TO IRELAND? LET YOUR HEART SOAR AND JOIN ROXANNE ON THE WILD ATLANTIC COAST! 
Roxanne will be your guide as you explore: - creating hand crafted books - collage with paper and fabric - unique mark making- texturing and painting - creating small assemblages made of natural or man-made objects - stitch and wire our pieces together - create art inspired by Celtic Symbols especially the tree.
Your senses will come alive as we journey together for seven days and nights... and a new story is woven together through your creations. You will be renewed and transformed by the richness of your own art and your experiences. Your will go home inspired and alive with mystery and beauty from this experience that will stay in your heart forever.

Join Seth Apter and Roxanne Evans Stout for their legendary Case of Curiosities, a mixed media art retreat in Taos, New Mexico at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House

Imagine, each day awakening to a gourmet breakfast with creative souls, art lovers, and fellow kindred spirits, then immersing yourself into creating, playing, exploring and art-making to your heart's content.

Our projects begin with a simple case of your own choosing. This case can have many compartments, or niches, of all different sizes or can be one open space. Throughout the retreat, we will fill it with unique art pieces such as handmade books, paintings, collages, assemblages, scrolls, shrines and tapestries.  For those of you who have attended before, please note that all the individual projects are new. We will stitch and weave, connect and construct, assemble and build, write and sketch, all the while creating our own, unique Case of Curiosities.

Sorry, this workshop Is Full!

Please email either one of us or message us on Facebook for more information or to get on the waiting list!

Roxanne at: evanlee@charter.net

Seth at: shap97@gmail.com

Registration Is Open!

Create a Mixed Media Artist Book

Roxanne returns to beautiful Whidbey Island and Pacific Northwest Art School to teach a unique and new artist book!

Roxanne will teach you her very favorite mixed media techniques and guide you in filling page after page with textures and colors that you love that symbolize simple landscapes.

You will be working on watercolor paper as our your pages, but also be glazing and mark making on deli-paper and using these colorful creations for collaging.

As you begin constructing your books, you’ll give them a new dimension by cutting and tearing windows out of the pages. These portals will give a view of the next pages and making your books even more unique.

Lastly you will add embellishments, stitching and weaving to your “windows” and binding your books together with wire and a piece of driftwood for the spine.

You will go home filled with inspiration and holding a beautiful, unique artist book that you love!

Join Seth Apter and Roxanne Evans Stout for their legendary Case of Curiosities, a mixed media art retreat in Taos, New Mexico at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House

Imagine, each day awakening to a gourmet breakfast with creative souls, art lovers, and fellow kindred spirits, then immersing yourself into creating, playing, exploring and art-making to your heart's content.

Our projects begin with a simple case of your own choosing. This case can have many compartments, or niches, of all different sizes or can be one open space. Throughout the retreat, we will fill it with unique art pieces such as handmade books, paintings, collages, assemblages, scrolls, shrines and tapestries.  For those of you who have attended before, please note that all the individual projects are new. We will stitch and weave, connect and construct, assemble and build, write and sketch, all the while creating our own, unique Case of Curiosities.

Please email or message Seth or I to get on the waiting list:

Roxanne at: evanlee@charter.net

Seth at: shap97@gmail.com

Create a Hand Crafted Book

Inspired by your hopes and Dreams for the New Year

Registration is Open!!!!

This workshop is hosted by Ashland Artworks Galleries and is in conjunction with Oak Street Station Bed and Breakfast. It will take place during the premiers of the 2020 Shakespeare Festival plays in Ashland Oregon!

Please join Roxanne Evans Stout and Ashland Artworks Gallery for Dream Weaver, a mixed media art workshop that is sure to get your creative juices flowing!

Our studio will be at Thrown Stone Gallery (a part of Ashland Artworks) which overlooks the Ashland Creek and will inspire us as we create an artist book that is influenced by our hopes and dreams for the new year.

We will begin our project with a long piece of watercolor paper that we will fill with texture, paint and collage and marks. Next we will each fold our book, accordion style and create our “pages” that will give us smaller surfaces to tell our stories in collage.

Finally, our books will come to life as we will embellish our pages with mark making, stitching and adding found objects. You will go home with a unique and beautiful book that you will treasure forever!

Please follow the link below to learn more about this space and lodging options and/or contact Roxanne for more information at evanlee@charter.net

$225.00

Leighanna Light and Roxanne Evans Stout invite you to create with them in enchanting Taos, New Mexico for a magical, rich and immersive experience in the Autumn.

We will explore bookmaking, surface design and various mark-making techniques on metal, paper, and fabric. Then, rearrange the materials to create our own “Fragment Keeper” book to preserve our special memories & experiences. Many of the pieces we will create can be enjoyed simply for their visual splendor, or if you choose, reconstruct them to become integral parts of your unique hand crafted journal.

From fabric prayer flags to distressed metal tiles, bold mark making to delicate leaf prints, our books will be inspired by the elements of the earth from this enchanted place where we are gathering.

In addition to creative learning, we offer an opening night celebration, complimentary lunches & snacks and a closing dinner.

We hope that you will join us for this creative learning experience, and  enjoy the beauty and splendor of this beautiful land that we call Taos!

The total price for this workshop is $900 until February 1st, $975 after.

A $200 non refundable deposit is required to hold you space. If you would like to make payments by check only, please contact Leighanna or Roxanne to make arrangements.

Please email Leighanna at leighannalight@gmail.com or

Roxanne at evanlee@charter.net for more information.

Please visit Leighanna’s website page for details of our day to day schedule!!

Would you like to make a book that represents what is sacred in your life?

Join me on the entrancing Whidbey Island at Pacific Northwest Art School for this magical workshop where we will joyfully make a handcrafted book dedicated to your own days "Between the Sun and the Moon."

On your artist book pages you will create collaged mandalas representing what is sacred in your life, landscapes from your soul, and paper tapestries inspired by the seasons.

We will use gesso, plaster and different mediums and glazes to make our pages tactile and mysterious. We will collage with fabric, paper, and images, then we will add hand-stitching and wiring for beautiful details and effects.

Together we will explore the symbolism and legends of the sun and the moon, the callings of the north and the south, and the offerings of day and night and where they can fit in our art.

And as each day unfolds, "between the sun and the moon,"  you will be inspired, nurtured and enriched... and discover the essence of your own creativity.

Read more about this workshop and register here!

Gather on the Eastern Shore to make beautiful wall hanging/books that can roll up into a scroll.

Gather by the sea this summer for three glorious days with Leslie Marsh and Roxanne Evans Stout in beautiful Topsail Beach, North Carolina!

Together we will each make an exquisite wall hanging/book that can be rolled into a scroll or hung on a special wall. We will botanically dye plant material onto both fabric and paper, take walks on the beach, gather and collect treasures, make beach mandalas, attach found and natural treasures to your projects and make unique embellishments with your finds. 

We will also do some brayer printing, make some smaller books, paint and stencil symbols on your pages and stitch details on to your projects. 

Read More about this workshop and Register Here!

Won’t you celebrate spring at Art and Soul with me in Colorado?

Make your own collage book in this two-day workshop!

In Storytelling with Collage, will begin by creating intriguing background pages filled with texture and intrigue. Next we will collage with textured fabrics and papers to add beautiful splashes of color to our pages.

Finally, we will add unique details to our pages using stitching and mark making. You will go home with a wonderful book that you can finish during the workshop or take your time and work on it at home!

Please read more about this workshop and Sign up here!

Won’t you join me in the magical land of New Mexico in the springtime?

Seth Apter and I return to the amazing Mabel Dodge Luhan House once again for an incredible week creating and exploring A Case of Curiosities.

During this magical workshop we will stitch and weave, connect and construct, assemble and build, all the while creating our own Case of Curiosities!  

Seth and I take turns teaching each day. We create projects just for this workshop, all of which will fit nicely into your own Case of Curiosities.

Won't you join us for this once-in-a-lifetime experience of discovery, exploration, inspiration, and most of all, nourishment for your artistic spirit?

If you’d like to read about the first time we did this workshop, read my blog post from 2016. You can also read Seth’s blog from our second Case of Curiosities in 2017.

This class is already full!

But you can contact Seth at shap97@gmail.com to or me at evanlee@charter.net to be added to the waiting list!

Join Lorri Scott and me for a mixed media adventure as we teach Storyscapes together over two days.

Storyscapes embody collage with fabric, fiber, paper, nature finds, and other unique elements that we hand dye, paint, and stitch.

On the first day of Storyscapes at Art and Soul, Portland, Lorri will teach her lovely rust and botanical printing techniques and will incorporate teaching unique pigment printing to pieces of fabric. We will create several different printed pieces the first day.

Then on the second day, I will be your guide as we attach found objects to our pinted pieces, add collage elements, and incoporate decorative stitching, stenciling and mark making. I will have my newest stencil designs available for us to use!

Finally, we will both guide you in stitching your pieces together, making one long panel, your own Storyscape. We will attach it to an antique spool, which will be provided along with beautiful pieces of muslin, silk and linen that we will be dyeing and using for our panels.

Both Lorri and and I will share wonderful treasures from our own supply stashes to entice and inspire you for use in your own creations.

Read more about this and Sign up here!

Would you love to make your own books full of colors, textures, and patterns?

Join me for this two-day workshop at Art and Soul, Portland to create a Wanderer’s Book of Colors reminiscent of medieval times.

We will make the covers out of antique door hinges, which I will provid for you, and I’ll also give you vintage colored silks to cover your pages.

On the first day, we will explore two different ways to cover the pages and edges, first with pan pastels and paints, and then with the vintage silk. We will also make self drying beads to use on our book spines.

On the second day, we will explore stitching, attaching, and collaging simple details onto your pages. I will show you how to put your book together with a unique and easy process.

You will go home with your own handmade book that tells the story of a beautiful gathering of artistic souls along with the colors, textures and patterns that you love.

Read more about this and Sign up here!

Join Roxanne and Leslie at the newly expanded and renovated studio of artist and hostess extraordinaire Laura Roberts (aka Hasty Pearl) on the banks of the Crystal River. Together, we will explore the pristine river bank, gathering material to include in your books. 

Leslie will guide students through two popular botanical printing techniques: eco- and brayer- printing. And Roxanne will show them her stitching, collage, wiring, wrapping and mark making techniques.

Laura will wow us all with an amazing lunch, snacks and a welcoming sense of graciousness that she’s famous for.

This workshop is Full!

Please contact Leslie or I to get on the waiting list!

Won't you join me in the Netherlands for three days of Storytelling with Collage! This a new workshop that I created just for this event, where each student will create an artist book from scratch and fill it with beautiful collages inspired by the early summer in this enchanting land. We will paint and collage with beautiful papers and fabrics and I will teach you my special techniques of texturing, layering and design. I will share my creative processes that will inspire and delight you. 

We will work and play in the Baander Restaurant in the lovely village of Dalen where you will be served a delicious lunch every day. Each student will receive a special gift bag filled with papers, fabrics made just for you. Register early, spaces are limited!

There is a $165.00 Registration Fee, the payment button is below. For more information please email me here: evanlee@charter.net or my sweet host, Leslie Van Der Heide here:  leslie.vanderheide15@gmail.com

This workshop is Full!

Please email Leslie to get on the waiting list.