Fantasy Map Making Workshop with Jill Osgood (Kids)

314 Forest Ave,Portland ME 04101

19 March, 2022

Description

Calling all kids! Learn to make your own fantasy map with artist Jill Osgood. Do you have an interest in drawing, painting, and mapping places beyond your wildest dreams? Join artist and naturalist Jill Osgood to learn new techniques and skills to create a map of your own imagining at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. This is a one-hour workshop for kids, with a snow date planned in the event that we have to cancel due to inclement weather: Saturday, March 19, 1:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Snow Date: Saturday, March 26) Space is limited to 12 attendees per session and will be held in our Cohen Center classroom. These events are free and open to the public, and all map making supplies will be provided. About the Artist Jill Osgood is a painter, illustrator, book artist and educator who lives and works in Portland, Maine. Jill studied fine art at the School of the Worcester Art Museum and Maine College of Art, receiving her BFA with honors from the University of Southern Maine in 2017 with a concentration in Painting and a minor in Book Arts. Growing up in the woods of New Hampshire helped to foster in Jill a sense of wonderment and respect for the natural world that has guided her perspective as a human being and defined her work as an artist. Jill completed the Maine Master Naturalist program in 2019, a year-long intensive program that trains volunteers to protect and teach about Maine’s natural resources. Jill continues to share her knowledge of both art and Maine’s rich natural ecology through teaching and workshops on nature journaling and book arts with both children and adults.