Celebrate Your Creativity Mini Retreat

by Staff March 25, 2026

written by Staff March 25, 2026 0 comments

FLORENCE-Florence Arts & Museums is happy to host Monica Yother of Studio 127 on Saturday, April 11 from 9am – 4pm at the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts in Florence for a mini retreat. Participants can attend one of two sessions or both. The first session will focus on junk journal making while the second session will focus on gel plate printing and open art journaling.

Here are brief descriptions of each session:

JUNK JOURNAL MAKING: 9:00am – 12:00pm

We’ll be taking old papers, book pages, painted and stained pages and putting them together to make a journal. I’ll show you a simple way to sew the books into the covers, and then we’ll have time to start filling it. You are welcome to bring any papers you have been stockpiling. This is a fun way of creating a journal that has character built into every page!

GEL PLATE PRINTING & OPEN ART JOURNALING: 1:00pm – 4:00pm

If you’ve been wanting to try gel plate printing but are not sure how to start, this is the perfect class. And if you are already familiar and just need time and space to make your prints, then this is also the perfect class! I’ll have gel plates, brayers, stencils, stamps, and loads of paper to help you scratch that creative itch! And if you just want to bring an art journal and fill some pages with goodies you can do that, too!

Lunch will not be provided. However, there will be an hour in between sessions to grab lunch. You can register for this event at: https://tinyurl.com/2nw8kym6.