Join us for this very special Friday afternoon party of Valentine-making for our dearest loved ones and for ourselves too in this fun three hour workshop to celebrate love! Deborah will lead an exploration into the romance and delight of watercolor, paper cutting and folk art traditions to create sublime gifts using LDBA’s handmade watercolors, Deborah’s homemade ink and pens and surprising methods to make images about love.

Deborah will share ways humans have shown and expressed love for centuries: our love languages, the heart symbol, cupid’s bow and the perfect love letter. She’ll fill the table with  vintage papers, objects, flowers, and inspiration to guide you to make your own playful and unique valentines: you’ll paint, write love poems, letters and spells with brush, pen and ink and explore paper-cutting, folding and collage if you wish to make beautiful cards, zines, paper dolls for the love stories you want to tell.

You’ll leave class with beautiful meaningful valentines all your own, new friends and maybe a sweetened perspective on passion, hope, creativity, and all the things love in action can create.

Come on your own or bring anyone dear to you to enjoy an afternoon of making and fun. All materials provided and all skill levels welcome!

Friday, February 13
3-6 pm
Class limit: 10

Deborah Stein lives, paints and writes in NYC and a small mountain town in Northern New Mexico. She’s known f0r her playful visual narrative workshops and her watercolor works on paper which she's shown at LDBA and Hecho A Mano in Santa Fe. She has written and made art for Khôra and Royawat journals and her own Substack, Sometimes a Ghost. She studied at the Museum School in Boston and with toymaker families in Northern India, worked with NYC school kids at the Museum of Arts & Design and has taught alternative arts education workshops about seeing and translating the world in water can color for 25 years.