TAROCCHI
Make Your Own Tarot Cards
This workshop will provide a brief intro to the symbols and archetypes used on tarot cards. There are nearly as many tarot interpretations in the world as there are different decks and people holding them in their hands, so everyone will start by drawing a card from the deck to learn how it could be interpreted in a reading. The card drawn will be the card one focuses on reproducing/making. Example decks and guides to interpretation will be available as a resource to help you create your own tarot card so you have a starting point for your own deck! Intuitive/automatic drawing/collaging is also encouraged, so feel free to avert your eyes from other examples/literature and let the work intuitively flow!
Some collage materials, card stock, markers, and tarot decks/ books will be provided. If you would like to work with any specific type of material left unmentioned, please bring it with you! Hopefully at the conclusion of the time provided we will each have at least one card to take home, and the beginnings of a collectively made tarot deck. These images will be photographed and compiled into a digital zine that can be cut up and mounted onto card stock later.
Facilitated by Lily Sage, a Montessori pedagogue who is interested in questions of symbiosis, inter-sectional feminism and anti-racist/fascist praxis. She has studied in the fields of herbalism, birth, visual/performance art, anthropology and political theory in Germany, Mongolia and the US. Lily started facilitating DIY Tarot Workshops with teenagers at Omega Teen Camp in 2012, and later went on to lead them with adult artists as well, at Gabfestry for Creative Dissenters and beyond.
This workshop will provide a brief intro to the symbols and archetypes used on tarot cards. There are nearly as many tarot interpretations in the world as there are different decks and people holding them in their hands, so everyone will start by drawing a card from the deck to learn how it could be interpreted in a reading. The card drawn will be the card one focuses on reproducing/making. Example decks and guides to interpretation will be available as a resource to help you create your own tarot card so you have a starting point for your own deck! Intuitive/automatic drawing/collaging is also encouraged, so feel free to avert your eyes from other examples/literature and let the work intuitively flow!
Some collage materials, card stock, markers, and tarot decks/ books will be provided. If you would like to work with any specific type of material left unmentioned, please bring it with you! Hopefully at the conclusion of the time provided we will each have at least one card to take home, and the beginnings of a collectively made tarot deck. These images will be photographed and compiled into a digital zine that can be cut up and mounted onto card stock later.
Facilitated by Lily Sage, a Montessori pedagogue who is interested in questions of symbiosis, inter-sectional feminism and anti-racist/fascist praxis. She has studied in the fields of herbalism, birth, visual/performance art, anthropology and political theory in Germany, Mongolia and the US. Lily started facilitating DIY Tarot Workshops with teenagers at Omega Teen Camp in 2012, and later went on to lead them with adult artists as well, at Gabfestry for Creative Dissenters and beyond.
