Events › Let it Storm: How to Brainstorm Better

Through Show and Tell, HDL's Maker-in-Residence, Joel Schoon-Tanis, will talk through all of the aspects of the creative process, with a special emphasis on brainstorming. Participants will play some creativity starting drawing games and then help Joel brainstorm ideas for a community Big Read art project related to this year's Little Read. This workshop is open to people of all ages.

About Joel Schoon-Tanis:

For over 30 years Joel Schoon-Tanis has been a working artist in Holland, Michigan. He has written and illustrated a handful of books (including "The Dragon Pack Snack Attack", “40: the Biblical story”, “At Psalm’s School” and “Lulu and the Long Walk”), painted murals around the world (including Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, The Dominican Republic, Germany, Palestine and exotic northern Wisconsin), and painted nearly a gazillion paintings in his career. His work is in churches, children’s hospitals, schools, restaurants, businesses and many private collections. In 2016 one of his images was presented to the Pope. In 2017 he joined international artists in Leipzig, Germany to create art around themes of social justice in conjunction with a gathering for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Last summer, he moved his art studio to the Third Reformed Church of Holland, MI, where he is the artist in residence.