Crafts & Drafts Workshop

Date: April 5, 2024

Time: 6pm-9pm

Description: Students will learn to bind their own books with the help of artist Shelbey Abranovich Tharpe. We will be creating a stitch bound book and then use our newly acquired skills to make more! Students will be invited to personalize their books with mixed media including paint, oil pastels, and colored pencils for books that tell their own story.

Tuition: $40

Materials: All materials will be provided.

Location: Contemporary Craft – 5645 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Crafts & Drafts: Participants must be 21 years of age or older. Beer and lights snacks will be provided.

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded through Eventbrite, or you may leave your workshop fee in your Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

About the Artist

Shelbey Abranovich Tharpe is interested in the intersection of arts + health. An intuitive painter and mobile art teacher, Shelbey is best know for her bold and color saturated figurative paintings on canvas and paper. Along with painting, Shelbey works in book making, mixed media, and clay, gathering stories of empowerment and self-efficacy throughout her work. Shelbey also studies are therapy at Seton Hill University where she is a graduate student.