Creating with Courage with Clarissa Callesen

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What Is Creating With Courage?

Filmed on location in Washington State, USA Creating with Courage is an online course based on creativity and exploration. Centered around transforming recycled textiles through many techniques including eco and rust dyeing you’ll create fabric forms that are pieced together to make your own fibre art sculptures.

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.

Many students have found their creative spark as they find freedom in letting go of the rules and recipes that often hold us back.

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.

Enrolment is limited.

Meet Clarissa Callesen

Hi – I’m Clarissa – a creative coach, traveller, rust lover, and true believer that you can make something out of anything if you’re honest with yourself and willing to experiment.

And that’s why authenticity permeates throughout everything I do and teach – honouring the integrity of the environment, preserving materials, and honing in on your YOUness to create a better world.

Because the truth is – in an age where so many people are focused on things like mass production, throwing items out instead of repairing or reusing, and dishing out quick judgments to what’s “pretty” or “worthy”.

It’s clear that our world is craving more uniqueness.

And that’s why I’m so excited to partner with Fibre Arts Take Two on such a life-changing project.

Why Enrol in a Fibre Arts Take Two Signature Course?

Joining Creating with Courage with Clarissa Callesen includes:

Lifetime Access: Revisit the course content anytime to refresh your skills or find new inspiration. Learn at your own pace!
Student Community Group: Engage with like-minded artists and form connections that could last a lifetime.
Two Live Q&A Sessions: Get direct feedback and insights from Clarissa herself.
8 Weeks of Tutor Support: Clarissa will be there to guide you, answer your questions, and help you overcome any artistic hurdles.
Showcase your artwork: your enrolment includes an invitation to participate in an online exhibition.

1: The Challenge

Welcome to your safe space to challenge the “norm.” To challenge your boundaries, and to challenge your internal creativity. Your adventure begins by(throwing out the rules) learning the rules, and then quickly and respectfully leaving them behind. Because here, it’s time to play courageously. It’s time to make mistakes in the name of learning. It’s time to stretch yourself far outside the confinement of “fitting” into a box. It’s time to see things differently.

You’ll do so by joining me on a walk through the forest, inside textile stores, alongside railroad tracks, and around my studio. The places we go and the things you see will enhance your learnings, and you’ll take these deep-seated realizations with you on your own personal walk the next time you step outside.

As for your tangible challenge – upon your new re-frame of how you view the value of an object, you’ll find items that were once told they were worthless or “junk,” and you’ll learn to bring personal and known worth to it. You’ll remove all preconditions, and you’ll engage in a uniquely creative process of hunting and gathering your materials. What will you challenge yourself to find?

2: The Techniques

Next stop on your adventure is learning new, unique, and challenging techniques that fill your SOUL. Like every thoughtful touchpoint of this course, you’ll enter the “technique” phase by softly removing rules and expectations to create more room for adventure and play.

The stops on your journey here will take you in and out of your studio, with a goal to expand your creative horizons and try new approaches to creating art. With every technique grounded in accessibility (like backyard findings and common household materials), you and I will dive into deepening your understanding of different fabric forms and watch your new authentic expression emerge.

And regardless if you’ve heard or tried any of these techniques before – we promise you’ll embark on an adventure unlike you’ve ever experienced. And keeping the theme of our “no rules” demeanour, you’ll be invited and encouraged to try each technique, but never instructed or told to.

3: The Growth

This is where your shift happens. The new techniques you’re adding to your talents will guide your progress into a new phase of exploration. It will allow you to think bigger about what’s possible, in your quest to find your voice, originality, and joy.

You’ll dig into new processes to put your techniques into action, and new experiments along the way. The processes learned here – the seeing, the doing, the experimenting – become part of a bigger conversation that you’ll take with you in other areas of life. Because what happens in this phase is not just about what you’re making, but about who you’re becoming.

Lean into your truly authentic mixed media creations, and together we’ll work through any resistance, blocks, and uncertainty… because when you look at everything through a lens of curiosity, it sparks a different story of what’s possible.

4: The Transformation

Your final transformation happens in both the physical completion of assembling your small and larger artwork, AND in the mindset transformation of stepping into a new artistic identity. You’ll round out this course by having an entirely up-levelled skillset as an artist, a new direction on how to carry your creativity, and a clean slate allowing yourself to be you.

The completion of your journey here marks where your new courage begins. You’ll gather what you need to proudly finish your project – bringing together every piece you love and, most importantly, every beautiful flaw. Because the bottom line here is that creativity is LIBERATING, and you’ll have freed yourself from the fear, insecurity, and shame that undermines so many creatives.

As you step into a new confidence simply by doing, you’ll see that this creativity was always inside you, and just needed the right catalyst to come alive. You’ll enjoy every feeling that comes alongside the completion of a project, with the added satisfaction of doing it your way, and in your voice.

Helpful FAQs
Have another question? We’re here to help! Please contact the Take Two team at support@fibreartstaketwo.com

: Clarissa will be available in the private Facebook Community after enrolment closes and will be active for a minimum of 8 weeks.

There will also be 2 live Q&As during this time which will be broadcast on YouTube. Questions can be submitted in advance and a recording of each Q&A will be made available in your course portal.

Please do not email your tutor directly. All questions can be submitted through the Facebook group or via email to support@fibreartstaketwo.com to be answered during our live Q&A sessions with your tutor.

Please note as a practising artist and tutor it may not be possible for Clarissa to comment on every post. She will engage as much as possible between her other commitments and the Fibre Arts Take Two team is always available to help.
: From the moment you join us – you will receive the entire 8-module course, which includes over 9 hours of beautifully filmed content with lifetime access, including downloadable PDF resource guides. You’ll also be welcomed into our online community, where you can introduce yourself and meet all your other new, aspiring, and growing artists. Once you’re all settled into your new digital home, you will meet Shelley with your classmates for two live Q&A calls. The details of the Q&As will be emailed two weeks in advance. We can’t wait to see you there!
: Not at all. This course was created with you in mind – the creative who wants to watch in your own time, hit pause, re-watch, take a break, and then return for more! While you will receive live support during the first eight weeks of enrolment to cheer you on and help you through the art you make, know that there is no set schedule to complete this course – plus, you’ll have all the material for life!
: Because we have students from all around the world – we have geolocation set up to try and accommodate where we can! Therefore, we currently accept USD, AUD, GBP, Euro, CAD and NZD… with more to come! And if your currency wasn’t mentioned, your bank will still automatically convert it to your local currency once the charge goes through.

(And on the topic of being international, Fibre Arts Take Two, the course producers, are based in Australia… hence the spelling of things like fibre, realise and enrol!)

All Australian purchases are GST inclusive.
: Absolutely! The course content is fully responsive, so it will work regardless of whether you’re on a computer or mobile device. All you need is an internet connection.

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