Materials:
Blank cards and most materials provided.
Students should bring:
• drawing, mixed media, construction, recycled and/or tissue paper
• magazine images and text, drawings, photos and/or stencils of valentine colored flowers/garden creatures
Additional Suggested (but not required) Materials:
• crayons/construction paper crayons
• letter stamps and ink pad
• drawing ink/ink pencils
• calligraphy pens
• painters tape
• hole punches
• colored pencil colorless blender
Meet the instructor
Dana DuMont works with varied media including digital images, collage, drawings, fibers, glass, and clay, and recently stepped back from full time teaching to expand her own studio practice. Elements of and connections to the natural world inspire her pieces and she regularly incorporates recycled, donated and found items into her works. She exhibits and sells her work regionally, her paint restoration of the RCA “Nipper” window is on view at The Smithsonian’s Museum of American History, and she continues her teaching, which like her artistic process, encourages creative risk-taking, perseverance, humor, reflection, and environmental stewardship. DuMont holds BFAs in Craft Materials and Art Education from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master’s of Humanities with a concentration in art history from the University of Richmond. An avid traveler, she considers her ongoing art journeying to be her continuing studies program.
