This workshop is for Veterans or Active Service Members only

Experience the joy of creating pottery on the wheel! Learn the fundamental techniques of centering, pulling, and shaping clay under expert guidance. With plenty of muddy practice, you'll gain the skills and confidence to craft your own masterpiece.

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Think you can’t draw? Think again! ✨ 

Join us for a relaxing, creative day of Zentangle® and discover just how easy it is to create beautiful art—one stroke at a time. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the basics of the Zentangle Method, explore a variety of tangles, and create your own beautiful finished tiles. No artistic experience needed—just bring yourself! Come ready to slow down, have fun, and be surprised by what you can create.

Yes, you CAN draw!

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Enjoy the effects of Cold Wax as a medium for your Oil Paints while having fun experimenting with tools beyond brushes, such as palette knives, scraping tools, spatulas, etc. Try different painting styles and create as you please during two days of instructor guided, free style Oil Painting. Students can create paintings of their own design, references for ideas will be provided. You will also learn how to create inviting Abstract paintings based on real landscape scenes. Cold Wax is an excellent medium for abstract and/or loose realism but the creative options are virtually endless. Individual students have completed from one large painting to six paintings in this two day workshop. The possibilities are up to you! Join us for two days of ultimate creative freedom and fun! NOTE: All paintings must be done on solid boards when using Cold Wax. NO stretched canvas! Students can choose their own boards from various options including Ampersand “Gessobords,” Copper and more - the sizes are your choice.

• We believe art should be accessible to all. Scholarships are available for those who qualify.
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Explore Gel Plate Printmaking! Discover the creative possibilities of gel plate printmaking in this hands-on workshop with artist Heather Carey of Heather Carey Studios. Gel plate printing is an accessible mono-printing process that encourages experimentation through layers of color, texture, and pattern. Using acrylic paint, stencils, natural and found materials, participants will create a collection of one-of-a-kind prints while exploring a variety of techniques, including texture building, masking, and layered printing.

Throughout the workshop, students will develop an understanding of the gel plate printing process while embracing the unexpected results that make each print unique. Finished prints may stand alone as original works of art or become beautiful elements for collage, art journals, handmade books, greeting cards, and mixed media projects. Suitable for both beginners and experienced artists, this workshop offers an inviting opportunity to expand your creative practice, explore new techniques, and discover the expressive potential of mono-printing.

All materials are provided. Participants are welcome to bring fashion magazines or National Geographic magazines to incorporate transfers into their work, along with favorite textured materials such as leaves, lace, or bubble wrap. Please avoid bringing anything with sharp edges that could damage the gel plate.

$15 Materials Fee payable to the instructor

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During this workshop, participants will work to deconstruct their current way of making and rethink their creative process. They will be introduced to a new approach centered around "play." I define play within the fine arts as letting go of the preciousness of what you think you want to make and allowing your intuition to guide the process instead. It is about being curious, asking better questions, embracing mistakes, and discovering what happens when you release expectations and give yourself permission to create freely.

Participants will bring their own freshly leather-hard vessels and a willingness to experiment as they explore this unique approach to making. Through demonstrations and hands-on exploration, they will alter, reconstruct, and respond intuitively to their forms, discovering new possibilities along the way.

This philosophy is the foundation of ceramic artist Hadley Wiktor's current body of work. By continually asking new questions and allowing herself the freedom to make mistakes, or even make "bad" work, she has developed a distinctive visual language that celebrates curiosity, experimentation, and the act of letting go.

• We believe art should be accessible to all. Scholarships are available for those who qualify.
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A follow up to last year's popular workshop, but with new holiday scenes! Learn to draw and paint more accurately using still frames from your favorite holiday movies as reference. Bring your favorite sketch supplies such as a watercolor pad, pencils, pens, watercolors, and gouache, and bring your own holiday movie pictures or use the ones provided in class.

• We believe art should be accessible to all. Scholarships are available for those who qualify.
• Membership is one of the easiest and most effective ways to support our mission! Learn more about it's benefits and discounts!