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Nature Drawing Workshop with Suzanne Stryk on Sat June 26th

Artist Suzanne Stryk will give demonstrations and instruct you in the art of keeping a naturalistic journal. She’ll give you tips on how to do a “quick sketch” and make detailed visual and written notes to sharpen your drawing and observational skills. This workshop will take place both inside using specimens of plants and insects provided by the artist, and outside in the natural areas around the center.

Bring a small sketchbook, pencils, and kneaded eraser.
Optional: Micron Pigma .005 pen.

Saturday 10:00am-4:00pm workshop (bring sack lunch)

About JOE GATINS' WORKSHOP: The Globe Gallery’s ECHO Arts School in Tiger, Georgia, is pleased to present a one-day hands-on and how-to seminar in the craft of researching and writing a personal memoir, led by former newspaper editor and local author, Joseph Gatins.

Details: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, July 31, 2010, at ECHO Arts School, Bethel Road Tiger, Georgia. Contact 706-782-0071 or globegallery@windstream.net to register (limit of 14 for this class). Cost is $30. Pen, pencil & paper will be provided, but bring your own laptop if you prefer to take notes that way. Coffee, refreshment, fruit & munchies provided, but brown bag your own lunch. ECHO is located at 1195 Bethel Road in Tiger.

Gatins is the author of an engaging family biography, We Were Dancing on a Volcano. Signed & inscribed copies of the book also will be available for sale from ECHO ($20 the day of the seminar, or $25 if mailed to you in advance.)

About the author: Gatins spent more than two decades in the daily newspaper business as a reporter and editor, experience put to good use researching and writing his own family story since retiring to the mountains of north Georgia in 1996. “Researching a person’s background is part art, part science, and we will explore both tracks at ECHO,” he said. “Think of yourselves as detectives rooting through history.”

Besides treasure troves of personal information recoverable in old photo albums, personal papers and old love letters tucked away in attic footlockers, there is a wealth of public information available about every United States resident and immigrant. Gatins will teach the class about every one of these sources, from courthouse records and cemetery rolls to military discharge papers, from public archives to official census records – and a lot in between. Many of these are now available online and that will be covered, too, the author said.

Students attending the seminar should be ready to focus on a favorite family member, teacher or friend, Gatins said. “We will get you started on your own ‘exploration of friends and family.’ Whether you’re writing this up for the grandchildren or for publication, I can promise you it is an enormously satisfying to record these recollections and personal histories.”

Gatins grew up in Paris and Atlanta, was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, and was awarded the Bronze Star (for service). He spent most of his news career with The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia. When not “talking story,” he stays grounded by hiking nearby national forests, working an organic vegetable garden and (very) occasionally throwing a few clay pots.

For more information, click on:

http://josephgatins.blogspot.com

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Nature Drawing Workshop with Suzanne Stryk on Sat June 26th