June workshops

June was a wonderful month for Express Yourself! We wrapped up our spring workshop series, working together on collaborative projects while continuing to grow our own voices and confidence as artists. As usual, we also took lots of time sketch, doodle, chat, and play art games.

We continued to explore visual storytelling, comics, drawing and collage to create zines. Each zine expressed something unique about our identities and perspectives, ranging from favourite buses and types of airplanes to imaginative stories about our pets to to TV show recommendations to lists of prompts for how to destroy zines!

We then made photocopies of every zine, so each participant could read and take home a complete collection, representing the work of every artist in the group. We also made DIY zine library boxes to keep our collections in.

I loved seeing how these finished zine collections express the diversity of this awesome group, and that each person was able to experience, appreciate, and take home a little piece of their fellow participant's creativity. We rounded out the month with another fun Saturday drop-in workshop, creating amazingly detailed stickers!

Of course some participants took things to the next level, inventing the concept of 3-D stickers:

It has been a joy to get to know and work with this funny & brilliant group of teens. I’m excited to carry on with our summer and fall projects and see what we make next!