A Gift for Mom
Make mom smile with your own handmade art frame made from flowers and mixed media materials. We will take a polaroid picture of you to put in your frame for Mom. You can even make your own special wrapping paper and gift tag!
Spring Vacation – Harry Potter in the Art Room: Session A
Spend one or more vacation days in the children’s art studio exploring the enchanted world of Hogwarts. Inspired by the adventures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, students will create magical creatures, characters, and objects such as fantastical animals, potions, spellbooks, and wands using a variety of art materials.
Students will also enjoy a short outdoor break. Please bring a water bottle and a small snack.
Advanced Knife Sheath Techniques – Inlay and Embellishment
Add personality and style to your knife sheaths by exploring inlay techniques and other decorative details. In this class, you’ll learn design, patterning, sewing, and sealant treatments while creating a pouch, split-toe, or stud-style sheath, with or without a belt loop. Variety of design options are availbe to customize your sheath to fit your knife and your style.Beginners and intermediate students are welcome. Please bring a knife to use for patterning. Your knife will help determine the sheath style you make. An apron or clothes that can get a little messy are recommended, as finishing work may involve stains.
Tabby Weave Trivets
Using materials from a New England family-owned mill and a sturdy metal peg loom, create a coordinating pair of trivets with your choice of color ways in a classic tabby weave, featuring herringbone and gingham patterns. You'll also learn how to read a weaving chart and some time-saving tips. Materials fee includes 100% cotton loops, printed weaving charts, and use of metal peg loom and hooks.
Botanical Designs on Glass Forms
Celebrate spring with the beauty of flowers! Using dried flowers, leaves, mulberry paper, watercolor pencils, and archival glue, students will design colorful candleholders, votives, vases, and jars. Recycled glass containers like yogurt cups, mason jars, or old vases can also be transformed into vibrant art pieces. Older children comfortable working with glass are welcome.
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.
Spring Vacation – Harry Potter in the Art Room: Session B
Spend one or more vacation days in the children’s art studio exploring the enchanted world of Hogwarts. Inspired by the adventures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, students will create magical creatures, characters, and objects such as fantastical animals, potions, spellbooks, and wands using a variety of art materials.
Students will also enjoy a short outdoor break. Please bring a water bottle and a small snack.
Living Journal Nature Series
Develop a practice of nature observation and collection as your source for printmaking. Explore and layer patterns and detailed textures created from direct print techniques using ink and paint and your own stamp designs. Construct a living journal to hold your prints and observations. Activities are designed to be accessible and invite your ideas to flourish as you build a mindful practice of nature observation and creative expression to nourish yourself. Use your prints for collage, cards or framed art.
Please bring a snack.
Spring Celebration of Crafts Around the World
This new class explores crafts from different corners of the world while celebrating the spirit of spring and themes of new growth and new beginnings. Students will create art inspired by global traditions, such as a New Zealand koru spiral necklace based on the unfurling fern frond. Projects may include a selection of international crafts like lantern making, printmaking, weaving, painting, clay work, and wax resist techniques, offering a hands-on introduction to art from a variety of cultures.
BYOB Paint & Sip Workshop: Fantasy Worlds and Characters
Paint your own mythical fantasy scene or character on canvas. Enjoy guided instruction in a relaxed, social atmosphere with all materials included. No experience necessary. Perfect for a girls’ night out or a creative date night!