Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll create a stunning ceramic luminaire using slab construction techniques. Learn how to design and craft unique cutout patterns, textures, and finishes that will transform your piece into a captivating, light-filled work of art. Guided by expert instruction, you'll explore the interplay of form and function, experimenting with different designs to achieve a beautifully illuminated effect. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced ceramicist, this workshop offers a creative and rewarding experience. By the end, you'll take home a handcrafted luminaire that adds warmth and artistry to your space.

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To Weave Wild means to honor what wants to be created. To weave without boundaries and connect deeply to the craft. To connect to the slow innate medicine that is weaving. Allowing your mind, hands, and fiber to come together to create something ethereally wild and free. In this beginner (no experience needed) frame loom weaving workshop you will learn to do this. You will learn the foundations of frame loom weaving from setting up your loom to finishing a small handwoven piece that can be used as a small wall hanging. During the workshop you will be guided to connect to weaving mindfully and encouraged to explore and play with various animal, plant-based, and synthetic fibers as you weave wild and free. 

All materials will be provided. Students will leave with their finished piece, frame loom, and yarn, to continue weaving wild and free at home. Materials cost $30

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Print, ink and repeat with plants from Historic Yellow Springs! Discover the excitement of printmaking and see your image come to life in each print. In this all day workshop, we’ll explore both monoprinting and linocut using nature as both inspiration and material to create beautiful artworks. Forage near the studio and explore the historic medicinal herb garden to gather materials for printing.

You’ll be guided through the entire process from drawing to carving to printing. Make multiple prints you can frame or give as a gift. Bonus: the printing plate is yours to keep for future printing. Try different colors, mix your own inks, and enjoy some creative camaraderie!

You’ll take home the custom plate you design for future use, along with all of the prints you create during the workshop.  $25 materials fee payable to the instructor.

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This Mini Share Community Firing is designed to expand access to the wood-firing process by offering 18 participants a half-share each, making it a great option for those interested in learning more with a smaller investment of time, cost, and work.

Participants will be guided through the full hands-on process of loading, firing, unloading, cleaning, and maintaining the wood kiln. Instruction will cover building and managing the fire, reading kiln atmosphere to time stokes, and placing wood across the firebox to maintain even heat. You’ll also explore how oxygen levels shift throughout the firing and how to control them using dampers and air openings.

Additional topics include wood selection, stoking frequency, and the effects of introducing salt on pottery, kiln surfaces, and kiln furniture. During unloading, participants will observe and discuss how firing decisions come together to shape the final results.

Mini Share size: 12" × 24" × 15"

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Design and hand-build your own functional and decorative ceramic yarn bowl in this beginner-friendly workshop. Using slab-building techniques, you’ll construct a custom bowl designed to keep yarn neatly in place while you work.

Under the guidance of an instructor, you’ll learn how to roll and shape clay slabs, join seams, and form a sturdy base. Once assembled, you’ll add your personal touch through carved or sculpted details—turning your piece into a one-of-a-kind creation that’s as beautiful as it is useful.

Whether you’re a ceramic enthusiast or a fiber artist looking to craft your own studio companion, this hands-on session offers a fun introduction to clay construction and surface design. All materials and tools are provided.

Finished pieces will be fired and ready for pickup at a later date.

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Baskets were essential in the colonial period for gathering, marketing, and everyday household tasks; an indispensable tool in both town and farm life. Participants in this hands-on workshop will create a small market basket using traditional techniques. Working over a wooden mold, each basket will be woven from natural reed and finished with sturdy oak handles and pre-bent reed rims. 

Students will learn to prepare their material, lay out their base, weave the sides of the basket, attach the rims and handles and lash the basket.  

All tools and materials will be supplied by the instructor.  Please bring an apron or towel since we work wet!

Dimensions:   9” x 13” x 11”

Material Cost:  $50

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Be inspired by the natural world as we explore the grounds of Historic Yellow Springs and apply that inspiration to a major form of self-expression: clothing! Take what you have observed in our short walk through nature and apply it to your art in this beginner-friendly, one day printmaking/textile workshop. In this workshop, you will be guided in the techniques of block cutting and hand printing on a fabric of your choosing to make unique nature-inspired patches to adorn your jackets, jeans, bookbags, etc. Each participant will make and take home all of their unique fabric prints inspired by the flora and fauna of nature, as well as their single custom block that can be reprinted again and again!

Materials list provided upon registration.

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This two-day studio workshop will focus on painting “alla prima” (all at once) as well as developing greater skills of observation, simplification and painting “wet on wet” to create strong “painterly” paintings. The workshop will also discuss techniques to quickly transfer the elements of your reference to the canvas with the goal of creating an artistic painting that accurately relates the important forms of a composition rather than simply copying everything in a photograph.

The first morning of the workshop begins with a discussion of painting basics (from materials to paint handling) and will also address the fundamentals of color, value, edges, perspective and other “practical” elements that make a successful painting. Each day participants will work on a series of timed painting exercises incorporating the techniques discussed while developing their skills of observation, simplification, bold brushwork and painting in a “decisive” and “intentional” manner.  

Each morning of the workshop will include a short painting demo by Dan with an explanation of his process.  Dan will provide plenty of one-on-one individual instruction throughout each day of the workshop.

This workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced painters in both oil and acrylic mediums, however proficiency in basic drawing is required.  Participants will be able to choose from a wide variety of reference photos supplied by the instructor for their painting exercises. 

Click HERE for a materials list for this workshop!

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