What is Creating with Courage?
Filmed on location in Washington State, USA Creating with Courage is an online course based on creativity and exploration. Centred around found objects and recycled textiles you'll create fabric forms that are pieced together to make your own fibre sculpture.
Whether they be abstract, organic or representational, the choice is yours and the variety of fibre artwork that will emerge as a result of this online experience will be extraordinary!
Delving deep into Clarissa’s philosophies around creativity, which have sustained her professional creative practice for over 30 years, it will feel like Clarissa is right there with you supporting you as a creative coach.
All course materials, including self-paced beautifully filmed videos and comprehensive resource guides, are within an easy to use member portal and yours to revisit anytime.
Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art is an extensive resource to support your creativity for life. It’s a worldwide community for enrolled students to connect in a private online forum and share your textile adventures directly with Clarissa, ask questions, bounce ideas, and gain the skills and confidence needed to create your own authentic fibre sculptures.
Enrolments are limited.
Whether they be abstract, organic or representational, the choice is yours and the variety of fibre artwork that will emerge as a result of this online experience will be extraordinary!
Delving deep into Clarissa’s philosophies around creativity, which have sustained her professional creative practice for over 30 years, it will feel like Clarissa is right there with you supporting you as a creative coach.
All course materials, including self-paced beautifully filmed videos and comprehensive resource guides, are within an easy to use member portal and yours to revisit anytime.
Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art is an extensive resource to support your creativity for life. It’s a worldwide community for enrolled students to connect in a private online forum and share your textile adventures directly with Clarissa, ask questions, bounce ideas, and gain the skills and confidence needed to create your own authentic fibre sculptures.
Enrolments are limited.
What's Included?
Over 10 modules with 7 hours of footage and 8 weeks of ongoing guidance and comprehensive downloadable resources guides, Clarissa has created an in-depth experience that covers the techniques and philosophies she has developed over her lifetime as a professional artist.
It begins with an urban prospecting adventure where you’ll learn to see beyond what most others can. A master of transformation Clarissa shares practical ways to modify different materials with rust, eco-dyes, paints, stitches and further methods to distress your finds before translating your inspiration and ideas into 3D fibre forms. You’ll look at composition in a refreshing way, investigate armatures and how to successfully incorporate found objects into your artwork.
Your confidence will grow as you embellish your textiles from traditional embroidery to contemporary mark-making, burning and melting. You’ll be amazed at the creative freedom that is unleashed as you let go of the rules and recipes that often hold us back as creatives.
Most importantly you’re going to conquer the hard part of finishing a piece both in it’s physical and emotional ways, coming to a place of completion feeling satisfied with your creation.
Keep scrolling for a detailed description of each module and enjoy the video below.
It begins with an urban prospecting adventure where you’ll learn to see beyond what most others can. A master of transformation Clarissa shares practical ways to modify different materials with rust, eco-dyes, paints, stitches and further methods to distress your finds before translating your inspiration and ideas into 3D fibre forms. You’ll look at composition in a refreshing way, investigate armatures and how to successfully incorporate found objects into your artwork.
Your confidence will grow as you embellish your textiles from traditional embroidery to contemporary mark-making, burning and melting. You’ll be amazed at the creative freedom that is unleashed as you let go of the rules and recipes that often hold us back as creatives.
Most importantly you’re going to conquer the hard part of finishing a piece both in it’s physical and emotional ways, coming to a place of completion feeling satisfied with your creation.
Keep scrolling for a detailed description of each module and enjoy the video below.
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Learn at Your Own Pace
Clarissa embraces the chaos and clutter that creativity often brings and as an experienced international instructor she recognises that sometimes we need to rein this in a little and find some structure.
For this reason, Creating with Courage is segmented into modules that build upon one another over 82 individual videos.
We understand that working in a linear fashion is not the reality of making art and everyone learns at their own pace.
As a Fibre Arts Take Two student you’ll enjoy instant and lifetime access to this course so you can choose to binge the entire content before getting started, take it step by step, or dip into this, jump into that, before circling back to inspiration all from the comfort of your own home.
We understand that working in a linear fashion is not the reality of making art and everyone learns at their own pace.
As a Fibre Arts Take Two student you’ll enjoy instant and lifetime access to this course so you can choose to binge the entire content before getting started, take it step by step, or dip into this, jump into that, before circling back to inspiration all from the comfort of your own home.
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You're Not Alone
There’s nothing worse than purchasing an online course only to be left in the dark.
That’s why we have created a worldwide community to further support your learning where you’ll be able to ask questions, get feedback and connect not only with Clarissa but a close-knit network of fellow Creating with Courage students in a members-only online Facebook group.
Here you’ll receive invaluable support, engage with live Q&A sessions with Clarissa and it is also yours to access for life.
You are further supported by the team at Fibre Arts Take Two with the personal and attentive customer service that we have become known for!
That’s why we have created a worldwide community to further support your learning where you’ll be able to ask questions, get feedback and connect not only with Clarissa but a close-knit network of fellow Creating with Courage students in a members-only online Facebook group.
Here you’ll receive invaluable support, engage with live Q&A sessions with Clarissa and it is also yours to access for life.
You are further supported by the team at Fibre Arts Take Two with the personal and attentive customer service that we have become known for!
10 Modules, 7 Hours of Footage and 8 Weeks Ongoing Tuition!
Clarissa will guide you through the following modules opening up your world to endless fibre sculpture possibilities.
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Module 1
An Introduction to Creativity
Clarissa will introduce you to the creative benefits of non-traditional journaling and passive and active alter building as tools to visually support yourself through this experience. Take an in-depth look into her fibre sculptures and installation artwork and how they relate to what you’ll be exploring in this course.
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Module 2
The Art of Seeing
Artists see what others don’t. Discover the difference between functional and artistic seeing by looking at texture, shape, colour, depth and value. Take a mindful mediation as you walk through nature letting go of judgments as you learn and practice the practical skill of seeing without identifying.
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Module 3
Prospecting
Feeling bad for collecting stuff? Relax knowing that collecting and gathering is an important part of your creativity. Clarissa invites you on a prospecting adventure in a rusty forest and recycled textile outlet! Looking at our judgements, as a source to begin creating from a place of authenticity you’ll investigate and sit with the discomfort of what you may think of as ugly or gross.
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Module 4
Altering and Alchemy
One of the ways you can find originality in your own work is by altering your own materials. In this module, you are going to be embracing mistakes and experimentation as you transform your materials with rust, plants, spices and household materials. You’ll start to loosen up as you explore non traditional ways to alter the fabric and marvel at the results!
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Module 5
Inspired Movement
In this module, Clarissa invites you to try some creative exercises for what she calls inspired movement to further develop your originality. You’ll begin to understand inspiration doesn’t come out of anywhere finding inspiration is also a skill, based on curiosity and it takes some work. Enjoy learning these simple exercises to get your inspiration flowing.
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Module 6
Building your Palette
It’s time to begin building your palette, with shapes. Take the inspiration and information from previous modules to let go and do your own thing. Clarissa will guide you through making basic and outside of the box forms, introducing you to the different stitches and threads needed for needle sculpting. It’s time to embrace making mistakes and play without a plan.
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Module 7
Embellishment
Combining decorative and sculptural elements, imagine taking all of this junk fabric and transforming it into textural objects that can imitate nature with all of its textures, colours and glory. Clarissa shares her most used surface design techniques and tells you about some others..You’ll explore drawing and sketching with stitch including seed and running stitch, french knots, couching. You’ll melt, burn, wrap and dye as you build textures and layers to create complexity with dramatic effects.
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Module 8
Putting Things in Their Place
In this module Clarissa takes you on a journey to the wild urban side of her home town in a rusty rail yard, deconstructing the collage art degree subject of composition. In a simple and down to earth manner Clarissa shares with you the basics of composition and what to look for when you’re out exploring. Back in the studio, you’ll be eager to take your forms and play with some compositions of your own, taking notice of what speaks to you and your forms.
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Module 9
Substrates and Foundations
Bases, skeletons, armature, substrates whatever you call them they are the support for your fibre forms. Your support may be strong and sturdy or loose and flexible, depending on your intention. Amorphic or geometric shapes are covered so you can move forward with confidence learning the skills to support your creativity where ever it may take you!
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Module 10
The Last Miles - Finishing
You are entering the last few miles of the marathon, the hard part, a place where we often learn some of the most important lessons. In this module, you’re thinking about details and making some tough decisions. It’s time to be gentle with yourself and let things marinate. This is the place where you may start to really doubt yourself. Let Clarissa support you through this process so you pull all the pieces together both physically and mentally can create a piece of finished artwork that you will be proud of.
60+ Downloadable
Resource Guides!
Find everything you need to enjoy and extend your fibre art adventure, with additional information to complement your online experience.
By layering your learning you’ll be surprised how quickly your creativity expands as you breeze through artistic doubts to complete finished pieces of art
you are proud to share.
By layering your learning you’ll be surprised how quickly your creativity expands as you breeze through artistic doubts to complete finished pieces of art
you are proud to share.
You’re Protected
With Our 100% Risk-Free Guarantee
This course has been created to the highest standards. Professionally filmed and crafted for your viewing pleasure and is the culmination of Clarissa’s 30 years of learning, teaching and innovation.
The tuition for lifetime access to Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art is sold in USD for $349 when you pay in full. Payment plans are also available, please see below for details.
We also offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee! If you’ve viewed less than 10% of this course within the first 7 days we’ll happily purchase the course back from you.
We’re confident that if you do the work and engage with your tutor you’ll get enormous benefit from this experience. And we’re happy to back that up with our risk-free guarantee.
The tuition for lifetime access to Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art is sold in USD for $349 when you pay in full. Payment plans are also available, please see below for details.
We also offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee! If you’ve viewed less than 10% of this course within the first 7 days we’ll happily purchase the course back from you.
We’re confident that if you do the work and engage with your tutor you’ll get enormous benefit from this experience. And we’re happy to back that up with our risk-free guarantee.
This Course Is For You If...
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You are looking for clear strategies and techniques to unleash your creativity
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You are eager to explore the use of found objects to create authentic fibre sculptures
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You are open to making mistakes and learning new methods for seeing without judgement
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You want to see behind the scenes of an accomplished artist and network with a group of likeminded people
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You are ready to dive into your own creativity and find your courage to create
FAQ
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What tools and supplies will I need for the Creating with Courage Online Course?
A note from Clarissa: "As an instructor, I believe that materials and supplies should be easily accessed with as much recycling or repurposing as possible. Your courage and willingness are way more important than specific supplies. Please don’t let not having the “perfect” material stop or slow you down. Sometimes exciting creative discoveries are made when you make do with the “wrong” tool or supply."
Basic Supply Suggestions:
Something to journal in and a pen or pencil
An assortment of recycled textiles in different textures, colours and fabrication
Material for stuffing
Basic sewing materials
Simple equipment for steaming
Drawing ink, paintbrush, and plain A4 copy paper.
Fun junk for embellishing
Absolutely anything that you are inspired by!
A downloadable pdf with a comprehensive list of requirements, detailed with images, brand recommendations, website links and descriptions when applicable is found at the end of each module. -
How long does the course take and *ongoing tuition last for??
The Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art course is designed for you to follow at your own pace.
When you enrol you have access to the entire course immediately. Some people choose to immerse themselves and complete it over two weeks, others choose to take their time working their way through each of the modules slowly.
Remember, it’s yours to revisit time and time again!
*Ongoing Tuition
Clarissa will be available in the private Facebook Community for 8 weeks after enrolments close. This has proven to be a wonderful opportunity for students to gain practical and personal advice from Clarissa as she helps you solve the puzzle that Fibre Sculpture can be. -
I’ve never done an online course before?
Well, you've landed in the right place! Online courses are building in popularity. They are a great way to supplement live workshops affordably and from the comfort of your own home. Learn new skills and see behind the scenes into the studios and lives of your favorite artists.
Our platform is very simple to use and we offer a great support team should you ever run into problems. -
I don’t like social media, is this a necessity?
You will have full access to the course via your online portal.
We offer a closed Facebook group for enrolled students only to connect and share their journey.
The group also offers you the opportunity to gain further insights and tuition from Clarissa and other students. This group is not compulsory but is highly recommended! -
How much does the course cost?
The Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art online course is $349 USD*.
A payment plan is available:
2 x Monthly Instalments of $196 USD
Fibre Arts Take Two is a global company. This course is sold worldwide and is priced in USD a recognised international currency.
* Please check your local exchange rate before purchase.
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Can I purchase the modules individually?
To ensure a solid learning experience and to build community, the Creating with Courage - Adventures in Fibre Art online course is only offered as a full course.
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How does the guarantee work?
All Fibre Arts Take Two online courses have a 100% risk-free guarantee should you watch less than 10% of the course within 7 days of your enrolment and not be satisfied with the course content we will purchase the course back from you.
If you feel that this course doesn’t meet your expectations please email us at [email protected] within 7 days of your enrolment date. -
Can I take this course on my phone or tablet?
Absolutely! All of the course content is fully responsive so it will work regardless of whether you’re on a computer or mobile device.
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What do I do if I have a question about the course?
Good question! You’ll be able to post your questions about the course in our private Facebook group, either someone from the community, Fibre Arts Take Two or Clarissa herself will be able to help you.
If you have more technical questions please don't hesitate to reach out to [email protected]
More About Clarissa
Clarissa Callesen is a sculptor and installation artist based in the USA, working primarily with found objects and recycled textiles. Clarissa uses her unique style to tell stories about the joy and devastation that is the human experience.
Her work is inspired and informed by her untraditional choice of materials: found objects, recycled textiles, and cultural detritus. In using these materials, it is her objective to search the margins and to find beauty and value in that which our society has deemed worthless.
She has supported herself as a working artist for 25 years in many different mediums. Through those experiences Clarissa has acquired a diverse artistic palette of techniques and perspective that she brings to her art and teaching.
“I love the evidence of time on a worn object or tattered cloth. The small details that speak to years of being touched and used by hands unknown to me.”
“I am passionate about creativity being accessible to everyone. It is not about fancy materials and complicated techniques. It is about showing up and being willing to explore and experiment.
My approach to teaching is down to earth and even a bit goofy. Embracing spontaneity, cherishing the mistakes, and not knowing what you're doing is where true authentic creativity and originality come from.”
Her work is inspired and informed by her untraditional choice of materials: found objects, recycled textiles, and cultural detritus. In using these materials, it is her objective to search the margins and to find beauty and value in that which our society has deemed worthless.
She has supported herself as a working artist for 25 years in many different mediums. Through those experiences Clarissa has acquired a diverse artistic palette of techniques and perspective that she brings to her art and teaching.
“I love the evidence of time on a worn object or tattered cloth. The small details that speak to years of being touched and used by hands unknown to me.”
“I am passionate about creativity being accessible to everyone. It is not about fancy materials and complicated techniques. It is about showing up and being willing to explore and experiment.
My approach to teaching is down to earth and even a bit goofy. Embracing spontaneity, cherishing the mistakes, and not knowing what you're doing is where true authentic creativity and originality come from.”
