Build rich pastel surfaces with hatching, blending, layers and underpainting. Subject matter includes still life, landscape and possibly portraits. Limit 8 students
Start with pieces of tree limbs and trunks, make them round and from there create a shallow plate, using different skills than for making a deep bowl or vessel.
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.
Cold-process soap is made from scratch using vegetable oils and lye. Learn the basics while making a batch of honey-oatmeal soap, then experiment with colors and fragrances. Soap made in class can be picked up the next day or next week.
Explore your creative process in this informal and experimental session. Investigate color, composition and collage processes and try new approaches and techniques. Casual critiques and group discussion will follow each exercise.
For students with no felting experience: Make a piece of felt from merino wool and then combine with mulberry paper, creating a unique, textured 12" x 12" piece.
Learn how to use color mixing as a tool for expression, honing your watercolor skill set. Explore various techniques including spraying and splattering. Learn to vary brushstrokes and apply color layers. Subjects include landscape and still life.
A barley twist is a helical ornamental detail used for decoration throughout history. Its impressive, elegant spiral form can be used to support a table or bannister or incorporated into architectural details and other structures.
Shibori is the Japanese art of creating patterns by binding, stitching, folding and twisting fabric during the dyeing process. In this beginning-level workshop, learn some basic traditional techniques using commonly available commercial dyes.
Make one-of-a-kind screen-printed cards for the winter holidays or Valentine’s Day using pre-made screens, and gain successful screen-printing skills in the process. Go home with 10 greeting cards.
Create unique prints that combine techniques of painting, drawing and collage, incorporating organic materials and found objects, including fabric, egg shells, bubble wraps, feathers and anything your imagination desires.
Dive deeper into basket weaving. Learn more advanced wicker-weaving techniques, how to finish baskets with new rim patterns and how to create baskets using the split-spoke base.
Explore the boundaries of sequential art, creating original stories for comic strips, comic books, graphic novels and other forms of graphic narrative. Learn to use your personal style to its best effect.
What would your photos, prints or paintings look like REALLY big? Learn how to prepare a file in Photoshop,including color correction, sharpening and enlarging.
New to painting? No problem. Zahirah Nur Truth of ZNT Arts will guide you and provide instructions on painting to create your own vibrant masterpiece. Looking for something fun and creative to do on a Saturday night? Add this to your list.
Make your own glycerin soap using the melt and pour technique. Four batches of soap will be made using different fragrances, colors, pearlescent powders, and embedded items. Soap will be ready to use and take home by the end of class.
Using a variety of experimental hand-printmaking techniques, create a series of collages for exhibition pieces, greeting cards, gifts or for use in books and collage.
Create a piece of artwork combining weaving with handmade paper, cellophane, shells, wood bark, natural fibers, driftwood and some exotic yarn. The final product can be a wall hanging, a book cover or other functional piece.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
The DEILAB Engineering, Art and Innovation program blends Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) skill sets into an exciting hands-on project and challenged based class.
The DEILAB Engineering, Art and Innovation program blends Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) skill sets into an exciting hands-on project and challenged based class.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Leave your children with us after our afternoon session for informal, supervised play in our yard, and pick them up on your way home from work.
Make multiple miniature assemblages the size of a matchbox, in which symbols, memories and dreams occur on a tiny scale. Learn about the history of matchbox art and peek into the world of contemporary matchbox artists.
Using an accordion form, make a festive book full of surprises, packing it full of words, letters, tiny booklets, pockets, windows, beads and a range of other materials to give meaning to your celebratory wishes.
Make printing plates from wobbly, versatile gelatin in a process easily repeated at home. Explore the difference between homemade gelatin plates and the store-bought variety. Select your favorite style and create an edition of prints.
Make prints without a press using water-based acrylic paints. Explore textures, stencils, composition, transparency and vibrant colors. Expect to create at least ten prints to take home. All levels welcome. Limit 8 students
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Leave your children with us after our afternoon session for informal, supervised play in our yard, and pick them up on your way home from work.
Silkscreening seems daunting, but you can do it just using your kitchen sink and a closet. That gives you the power to print colorful multiples on paper or fabric.
Choose your time of the week and join a shop away from home, with tools, mentorship and community. Design and construct projects of your choice. Projects must be a manageable size due to limited storage; check first with instructors.
Make an elegant, unique writing implement. Choose a block of wood for its color and grain, drill a hole for the ink cartridge, then learn how to mount the long, thin block on the lathe and turn it round.
For ages, people have combined leftover fabrics into creative designs for quilts, adding a variety of assemblages embellished with embroidery. Complete a small quilt for décor, or a 10" square that you can incorporate into a larger quilt at home.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Leave your children with us after our afternoon session for informal, supervised play in our yard, and pick them up on your way home from work.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Leave your children with us after our afternoon session for informal, supervised play in our yard, and pick them up on your way home from work.
Learn fundamentals as you work a given plan through to completion. With a focus on six essential power tools, learn properties of wood and shop etiquette, interpret a plan, cut and mill stock and use basic machine joinery.
Work with vintage and decorative papers, newspaper, pre-painted paper and other materials of your choice. Transfer images using acrylic gel medium, graphite paper, stencils, stamps and frottage.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
The DEILAB Engineering, Art and Innovation program blends Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) skill sets into an exciting hands-on project and challenged based class.
The DEILAB Engineering, Art and Innovation program blends Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) skill sets into an exciting hands-on project and challenged based class.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Leave your children with us after our afternoon session for informal, supervised play in our yard, and pick them up on your way home from work.
Use inspiration to design a functional piece of furniture or work of art from start to completion. Develop a drawing, build a prototype and select materials for a one-of-a-kind, outside-the-box piece.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
Animation possesses a playful power. Learn how to harness that power to make your art come to life. Students will learn hand-drawn, stopmotion, and experimental animation techniques.
Animation possesses a playful power. Learn how to harness that power to make your art come to life. Students will learn hand-drawn, stopmotion, and experimental animation techniques.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Leave your children with us after our afternoon session for informal, supervised play in our yard, and pick them up on your way home from work.
There’s a special pleasure in using tools you have made yourself. Learn basic techniques of spindle turning making a custom handle for a multi-bit screwdriver from a beautiful and interesting piece of wood.
Eco Printing is environmentally friendly, layering and applying leaves, flowers, bark directly on the fabric or paper. The colorful results are unexpected, mysterious, beautiful––and earth-friendly.
A convenience for parents for our Summer Program for Children. Drop off your children on the way to work for informal, supervised play in our yard before morning session starts. We'll go inside to our art room in inclement weather.
Animation possesses a playful power. Learn how to harness that power to make your art come to life. Students will learn hand-drawn, stopmotion, and experimental animation techniques.
For comic book artists ready to go to the next level. Advance your skills in storytelling, drawing, lettering and inking. Learn to master professional tools and techniques.
The DEILAB Engineering, Art and Innovation program blends Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) skill sets into an exciting hands-on project and challenged based class.
