Parent/Child Together: Valentine’s Day Love Box Workshop
Share a fun afternoon with your special little one/ones, creating a beautiful little Valentine’s Love Box. Embellish your boxes with paint, lovebirds, flower petals, heart foil, ribbon, mulberry botanical papers, pearl beads and more! Line your box with red and pink velvet felt. Create a gift for your Valentine or as a place to keep your most loved treasures! Please note: tuition and material fee are per person.
Blacksmithing Valentine’s Date Night: Forging Steel Hearts
Forge lasting memories with your special someone this Valentine’s Day! This unique date night experience lets you learn the basics of blacksmithing together while creating a one-of-a-kind keepsake to cherish. Share the fun of hammering, shaping, and finishing metal in a hands-on, memorable activity that’s perfect for couples looking for something different.
Please note: For safety, all participants must wear long pants and closed-toe shoes. Protective gear and materials are provided.
Try Your Hand At Painting & Drawing Workshop: Session A
This workshop is geared towards the "absolute adult beginner" to come learn the basics of painting and drawing in a supportive, judgement-free session. Spend the morning in the GAC studios and learn about basic techniques, materials and approaches to working creatively in two dimensions. Come discover your creative potential.
Valentine Card Party for Kids
Design your own special Valentines Day cards for your friends and loved ones. We will have a big variety of materials for you to use, including; paints, flowers, lace paper, sequins, stickers, ribbon and glitter galore! Come for some sweet fun and share the love!
Valentine Portraits: BYOB Paint & Sip
No art skills required – sign up with a sweetheart, a sense of humor, and your favorite bottle (BYOB!). We’ll guide you step by step, but the real fun is in the laughter, the “oops” brushstrokes, and seeing your love through their eyes. By the end of the night, you’ll each have a one-of-a-kind keepsake (and a story worth telling).
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!
With Hands and Heart
In a turbulent and changing world, we can sometimes feel powerless. This workshop celebrates the impact each of us makes through our daily actions. Our hands are our hearts in action. We begin by tracing our hands with awareness of the gifts we offer and receive. Paint, draw, collage and decorate your hand art. Join hands into a book where you can write a message. How do your hands tell your story?
Lamp Worked Glass Beads Workshop
Students will learn to use a torch to melt glass rods, creating personalized colorful glass beads. Many glass decorating techniques will be demonstrated, including enamels, metal foils, flowers and more.
Nuno Felting a Scarf Workshop
Using fine merino and a laminated felting technique utilizing an open weave fabric, such as silk gauze, enables you to create a gossamer scarf. Once wet and agitated the wool will work its way through the fabric weave and permanently bond as it shrinks and creates a unique accessory.
My Funny Valentine Youth Workshop
Create your own custom Valentine’s Day cards or postcards! Start with blank cards in different formats and design and customize them with provided collage papers, markers, colored pencils, crayons, paints, stamps, 3D objects, and letter. All skill levels are welcome! The teacher will provide a list of postage guidelines, plus recommended books and websites with handmade card projects for further exploration.