Junk Journaling with Bonnie Gunelius

This workshop is designed to get you started on your own junk journal journey. Junk journaling is a way of recording your inner passion, life experiences, and collaging what you love and learn. It combines all forms of art mediums to create a book of you. Junk journaling uses everything from writing about your life and thoughts, using paint and color to express life in a different way, or simply gluing in a picture that reminds you of a moment that calls to you. It is a collection of your life expressed in your way. It can also be a place you store a favorite poem or song lyrics, or a flower you picked on a walk one day. It is a book for you to draw in, write in, collage, collect, paint, and give voice to who you are with complete freedom. In this workshop, you will be provided with all supplies to begin your journal which will include: journals, pens, pencils, paint, stickers, lots of collaging material, and more. The workshop is led in a very informal style as it is a time for everyone to find their own expression. There will be a brief introduction and explanation of junk journaling and then the rest of the time will be spent letting you create. Whether you are experienced in junk journaling or this is your first time, you will find something new, fun, and inspiring.

Class meets in person, Thursday, April 24,  4 – 6 pm

Class size: Minimum 5. Maximum 12.

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Teaching Artist: Bonnie Gunelius recently moved to Door County as a full time resident with her husband and two golden retrievers, Dessa and Dawkins.  She majored in Literature and Visual Art in college, which have been a major influence and expression of her life for as long as she can remember. Bonnie has a particular fondness for journaling, which she started doing when she was in first grade to help navigate life and the creative thoughts that were overflowing in her mind. She now works with pencil and ink, pottery painting, collaging, block carve printing, writing and her main love junk journaling. She has had her work displayed in galleries and has led several workshops on junk journaling. She strongly believes that art is part of the vitality of life.