Winter Wellness: Art in Nature with Ann Taylor-Schmidt

Registration is required. Registration opens 7 days before the event.

Join us for Winter Wellness: Art in Nature with Ann Taylor-Schmidt! Ann will lead you in art in nature as meditation. The focus for this session will be "Negative-Space Collage (Outdoor/Indoor Activity): Finding balance in tree and sky by seeing the negatives as positives."

Participants will spend time outdoors at Millbrook Marsh observing the negative space in the winter silhouettes of trees, and using that in art to define the positive space. We will then move into the barn to complete a collage project, using paper, scissors, and glue to recreate the negative and positive space that makes up the tree silhouette.

Participants should bring:

Warm winter gear (boots, gloves, hat, etc.) for a walk along the boardwalk, and while in the barn.

A portable chair if they wish to use one; some sitting cushions will be available

Art supplies needed for this project will be available, but you are welcome to bring your own.

About Our Instructor:

Ann graduated cum laude with a B.S. in art ed, first teaching elementary art. Then, she worked in the graphic-arts printing industry, continuing to take grad courses, painting and showing. She worked for Penn State marketing communications and public relations, retiring from the University’s StratCom Office of Social Media. Taylor-Schmidt has taught an annual Penn State nature journal drawing workshop for two decades. She has instructed both adult and teen students on her own, and through the Art Alliance. Ann enjoys photography, bonsai and selling her polymer clay art jewelry creations and teaching through her business Ann Taylor-Schmidt Artworks.

Wellness Wednesdays are part of Centred Outdoors' efforts to offer equitable opportunities for outdoor recreation at nearby natural spaces. The series highlights paths to wellness, engages the community, and includes local partners.