Bringing Stories To Life – Making Dioramas: Session A
Have you ever wanted to design your own mini theater or write a script? In this class, children bring stories to life in 3D—creating scenes, costumes, and accessories from a favorite tale or their own original story. Using materials like fabric, buttons, ribbon, cardboard, and paint pens, kids will turn imagination into art and embark on an art adventure!
Art & Literature Series: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Create art inspired by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! Follow Harry, Ron, and Hermione through their second year at Hogwarts while making characters, creatures, potions, spell books, and even the secret Chamber with its giant basilisk. Join us for enchanting fun!
BYOB Craft & Sip: Valentine Cardmaking Workshop
Let’s make beautiful, handmade cards for the special people in your life. This workshop is open to all experience levels—whether you’re a beginner or an experienced crafter, you’ll enjoy exploring simple techniques, colorful papers, and creative embellishments. We’ll provide all the supplies and plenty of inspiration, so you’ll leave with unique cards ready to share with loved ones.
Boondoggle Keychain Workshop
Learn how to make colorful boondoggle keychains, the classic craft! Students will learn different methods and patterns to design their own keychains, zipper pulls, or backpack charms. Perfect for hanging out with friends, trying something new, and showing off your creative side.
Art for Resilience – Winter Series
Enjoy nature-inspired creative activities for fun, connection, self-expression, and well-being. Activities are designed to be accessible, and to invite your ideas to flourish as you build a mindful practice of creative expression to nourish yourself. Explore the wisdom of the winter season and your intuitive self through a variety of mixed media techniques and brief journal reflection.
Decorating a Victorian Valentine Workshop
Step back in time to craft and decorate your own Victorian-style valentines using vintage-inspired materials. Perfect for date night or a Galentine’s gathering. Bring a friend (or a sweetheart) and your favorite snack to share while you create something truly heartfelt.
Bringing Stories To Life – Making Dioramas: Session B
Have you ever wanted to design your own mini theater or write a script? In this class, children bring stories to life in 3D—creating scenes, costumes, and accessories from a favorite tale or their own original story. Using materials like fabric, buttons, ribbon, cardboard, and paint pens, kids will turn imagination into art and embark on an art adventure!
Fall Fairies & Gnomes
Fall is a wonderful season to explore the magical world of the bounty and beauty of the “earth sprites” that live all around us. Using many natural materials like acorn caps, moss, flowers, branches, bark, stones, shells, and grasses, budding artists will create fairy houses and t-pees, gnome abodes, clay animal companions, nature luminaries, magical “scrolls”, fairy wind chimes, wands, nature windows and more! Explore, painting, drawing, clay sculpture, and many mixed media applications along the way. We will venture outdoors collecting natural items to incorporate into our artworks. Please bring a water bottle and a small snack.
Please note: No class 10/13
Mexican Day of the Dead Luminaries
Come explore the art of Mexico by creating skull luminaries in the tradition of Mexican Day of the Dead. This vibrant, colorful, celebration in Mexican culture reminds humans of the symbiotic relationship of life and death, choosing to honor ancestors, with art, costumes, music, dancing, parade, food, flowers, and reverie. In this workshop, we will use self-hardening clay to form the skull luminaries. We will learn how to carve traditional patterns such as flowers, swirls and butterflies and be able to decorate them with a variety of materials like craft jewels, sequins, and marigold flowers.
Halloween Magic Art Workshop
Get into the spirit of Halloween with spooky art projects made with clay and mixed media materials.Children can make magical witch sculptures alongside a familiar such as an owl, toad, cat, or bat. Add brooms, pointed hats, spell books, capes, and brooms to ride. The artists can create their own pots of potions, as well as enchanted cottages to embellish. They will add fairy lights for fantastical nighttime magic!
