Halloween Zines Workshop
Write, draw, and color your favorite (or original) spooky story in a simple zine format you’ll construct yourself. Later, you can photocopy multiples to give to friends and family. We’ll discuss classic and unusual story arcs, page layout, and how to pace your story using a storyboard. You can use provided markers, colored pencils, crayons, paints, stamps, and colored paper to illustrate your stories, as well as use glue, tape, scissors, and craft knives to assemble them. All skill levels are welcome! The teacher will provide a list of recommended books and websites with paper zine and mini book projects for further exploration.
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.
Leather Halloween Masks Workshop
Every goblin and ghoul loves a good mask and what better time to make one than right around Halloween! In this class students will make a leather half mask that they have tooled, wet formed and dyed themselves. Each mask will be completely custom made and as unique as the individual making it. This course will focus on teaching tooling skills, the wet forming process, discussions about choosing the right leather materials, finishing skills and basic pattern concepts. Join us to make something truly spooktacular that will last you for decades of Halloweens (and masquerade parties) to come!
Drop Spindle Wool Spinning Workshop: Session B
Learn the ancient art of spinning wool by hand using a drop spindle! In this beginner-friendly class, you'll discover how to transform raw wool into beautiful yarn. We'll cover fiber preparation, spinning techniques, and how to ply your yarn. Materials provided.
Friday Art Fun for Littles
Come create and play! Roll up your sleeves to explore various paints and surfaces, clay, sand creations, marble painting, sculpture, collage, and lots of open -ended and tactile art. We will use scissors, glue, different types of paper, beans, beads, flowers, cardboard, sticks, stones, leaves and more! We will venture outdoors on nice days for a short break. Meet other young creative kids on this fun art adventure! Please note: No class 10/31
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
Experimental Collage Workshop
Let your mind and hands wander freely and you might surprise yourself with what you create! Students will construct paper or mixed-media collage artworks by creating, cutting, and reassembling various colored and textured papers, photos, text, images, and printed ephemera. Collages can be further embellished with paint, markers, crayons, pencils, stamps, thread, fabric, lace, and 3D objects. Teacher will provide an exploration guide suggesting collage prompts, styles, techniques, and media approaches to inspire students’ work in class and beyond. All collage materials and tools will be provided, but students may bring photos, clippings, or other meaningful items to incorporate into their work.
Encaustic: Layers, Texture, and Translucency
Encaustic, a beeswax-based paint, worked while heated and melted, has properties that no other medium possesses and it comes in the most gorgeous colors, both opaque and transparent. It hardens almost immediately, allowing each layer to remain intact so it can be excavated and revealed when carved or scraped. Texture can be built up very quickly without the need for drying between layers. It can be printed on, drawn on, and is compatible with oil paint, which is used to enhance surface textures. It is also naturally adhesive, perfect for collage. Theis two-day class will afford lots of time to experiment.
Come and try this ancient and still modern medium for yourself. Beginners and advanced are welcome.
Discover Silver Metal Clay Workshop
Silver Metal Clay looks and feels like clay, but is actually pure silver in an organic binder. Students will learn all the basic information and techniques for forming, surface texturing, firing, and finishing silver metal clay. Flush setting of lab grown gemstones will also be covered, and (optional) inexpensive stones can be purchased in class.
Great for beginners, jewelry students, clay artists, bead makers, and others! No previous jewelry making experience is required.
You will have the opportunity to finish and take home your unique pieces of fine silver jewelry. Come and discover the many design possibilities of this exciting material! Materials fee of $105.00 is payable to instructor at class and includes metal clay, use of tools, supplies and handouts.
Materials fee of $105.00 is payable to instructor at class and includes metal clay, use of tools, supplies and handouts.
Comics & Graphic Novelas for Teens
Interested in making comics or illustrated stories? Or maybe you've started a project but need dedicated time, motivation, and a creative community to help you complete it? This class will offer prompts and exercises for story writing, character design, and setting building, as well as flexible class time where you can choose what you work on. We'll get inspiration from a wide range of illustrators and graphic novelists, and we'll frequently share and discuss our projects with one another, collaborating to find playful solutions throughout our endeavors. Please note no class 9/29
