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Tarot 101: The Language of the Cards Workshop w/ artist Isabella Rotman

July 10, 2026

Registration Open!

Tarot 101: Language of the Cards Workshop
w/ artist Isabella Rotman
Friday July 10
7pm - 9pm
Location: Gallery
Registration: Member $25 / Non-Member $30
Ages 13+

Tarot reading is the skill of synthesizing card meanings, card positions, intuition, visual symbolism, and context. In this introductory Tarot reading workshop, deck creator Isabella Rotman will delve into the systems at work in tarot and nurture your natural tarot reading skills.

How do suits, numerology, and archetypes come together to make a card? Can you read without memorizing every card (yes!), and how does your intuition and personal experience affect a reading?

In this workshop, we will cover the foundational system of tarot, how to read for another person, and practice reading with a partner. No prior experience is necessary and all skill levels are welcome.

What to bring:
A notebook, pen, and any deck you prefer reading with (we have plenty of decks to borrow as well).

About Isabella Rotman:

Isabella Rotman is an Eisner and Ignatz Award nominated cartoonist and illustrator living and drawing in Maine. Her art is usually about the ocean, women, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. She is the author of A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent,illustrator and co-author of Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up, and co-author of Abortion Pill Zine. Isabella is the creator of the modern and queer This Might Hurt divination deck family, including This Might Hurt Tarot and This Might Help Oracle. She is a founding organizer of Comic Arts Maine Portland.

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3S Artspace is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and NHCF's Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund; and Little Bay Fund.

Thank you to our lead sponsors: AC Hotel Portsmouth, The Brook, The Kane Company/Tidemark, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Raka, Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel and Stirling Brandworks.

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