Classes

This workshop focuses on a technique called "darning," a fabric mending technique that involves re-weaving a portion of fabric.  Add new life to a beloved garment by darning tears, weak patches, stains and more. You may elect to make your darned repairs invisible, or embrace re-imaging your garment with an intentionally visible repair. 

Explore composition, color, and value using a live model and still life as a subject.  Enjoy a relaxed and supportive atmosphere in which to grow your creativity.

Parallel play! Children and their adult companions work on their own versions of the same projects.

Create a customizable Shaker table from ash wood. Choose your own dimensions for an end table, coffee table or another small table. Learn how to adapt the dimensions of a basic design.

Add an extra hour on Saturdays from 12 PM to 1 PM to give yourself a four-hour unbroken block of woodworking time.

Prerequisite: Basic Woodworking
Limit 10 students.

Join a shop away from home, with tools, mentorship and community. Design and construct projects of your choice.

*Prerequisite: Basic Woodworking: Box.

Children learn basic woodworking skills starting with simple projects, using hand tools. Continuing students undertake larger and more complex projects, gaining appreciation for wood as a creative medium. New projects each section.

Get behind a saw, swing a hammer, build a treasure box, or a boat that actually floats. Children assemble projects in wood, learning to safely use the basic tools and techniques.

Learn how to use the sewing machine, cut patterns and sew. Develop your own personal sewing kit. Bags, pillows and simple clothing lead to more complex projects as you gain more experience. Sewing is practical and fun.

For kids who love art and want to have fun exploring a variety of approaches, mediums and techniques. You may have just started drawing, or already draw well and want to improve your skills.

Take an existing pattern or piece of clothing and revise it to express your personal style. Create new patterns and learn basic fashion portfolio skills. Limit 8 Students

Concentrating on specific skills in drawing, painting and other media, improve your use of line, value, tone, color, proportion, depth, composition and more.

Children assemble projects in wood, using simple tools and techniques. We’ll emphasize safety in our explorations, and the pleasure of making things and completing them to take home. New projects each section.

Get behind a saw, swing a hammer, build a treasure box, or a boat that actually floats. Children assemble projects in wood, learning to safely use the basic tools and techniques.

For kids who love art and want to have fun exploring a variety of approaches, mediums and techniques. You may have just started drawing, or already draw well and want to improve your skills.

This workshop focuses on a technique called "darning," a fabric mending technique that involves re-weaving a portion of fabric.  Add new life to a beloved garment by darning tears, weak patches, stains and more. You may elect to make your darned repairs invisible, or embrace re-imaging your garment with an intentionally visible repair. 

Have an old chair, stool, or ottoman that has potential, but could use a little love?  In Upholstery Immersion, you'll give a piece of furniture new life by creating new, custom upholstery from the ground up.  

Add an extra hour on Saturdays from 12 PM to 1 PM to give yourself a four-hour unbroken block of woodworking time.

Prerequisite: Basic Woodworking
Limit 10 students.

Learn basic quilting techniques and then expand into areas where the quilt becomes art, exploring what makes good design, shape and color composition, and finally touching on surface elements and dimensionality.  You'll use scraps of favorite fabr

In this class, you'll learn how to restore antique gilded picture and mirror frames with genuine gold leaf, using traditional water and oil gilding methods.

Join a shop away from home, with tools, mentorship and community. Work on a project of your choice in an open-format classroom; the teacher will circulate and give instruction at all levels, but there is not a set curriculum. Bring your piece to the first class. Storage is limited; no large dressers. Limit 12 students