In this workshop, Erik will discuss how to streamline your workflow as you prepare images of your artwork for submission to exhibitions and contests, so that you are putting your best foot forward and maximizing your success rate.
Focus on your strengths and unique voice. Bring examples of your best work to the first class, along with portfolio to store your art. Get ready to pass your audition for high school or college. Limit 8 student
Concentrating on specific skills in drawing, painting and other media, improve your use of line, value, tone, color, proportion, depth, composition and more.
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.
Expand your hand-tool-skill while exploring three dimensional forms. In this course we will explore various forms of carving and manipulating wood. Using these techniques, you'll create forms and textures in wood, while learning about three dimensional sculpture.
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.
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.
Students undertake larger and more complex projects, gaining appreciation for wood as a creative medium. New projects each section. Children will love to come back again and again as their skills and comfort increase. Limit 8 Students
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.
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.
Concentrating on specific skills in drawing, painting and other media, improve your use of line, value, tone, color, proportion, depth, composition and more.
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.
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.
Concentrating on specific skills in drawing, painting and other media, improve your use of line, value, tone, color, proportion, depth, composition and more.
For comic book artists ready to go to the next level. Advance your skills in story telling, drawing, lettering and inking. Learn to master professional tools and techniques.
Make your own comics. Looking at anime, manga, DC and Marvel, learn how to tell stories in visual form. Create dynamic characters, stories and visuals with a professional comic artist. Limit 8 students
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.
Make your own comics. Looking at anime and manga, learn how to tell stories in visual form. Create dynamic characters, stories and visuals. Limit 8 Students
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
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.
Let your child get started with simple sewing by hand and machine. Pillows and stuffed toys lead to more complex projects. The small class allows for individual attention, and we encourage kids to share their skills.
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.
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.
Let your child get started with simple sewing by hand and machine. Pillows and stuffed toys lead to more complex projects. The small class allows for individual attention, and we encourage kids to share their 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.
Mend your own beloved garments and give them a new life with patching!
Bring your own garment and learn how to creatively use patches to repair tears, weak spots, cover stains and more.
Mend your own beloved garments and give them a new life with patching!
Bring your own garment and learn how to creatively use patches to repair tears, weak spots, cover stains and more.
Ever wanted to create your own, custom wood vessels? In this 2-day workshop, you'll use the lathe to make wooden bowls, platters, artistic sculptures and more.
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.
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.
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.
Work on a project of your choice in an open-format classroom. Bring your piece to the first class to assess and plan, with instructor input. No set curriculum, the instructor will circulate and offer instruction at all levels.
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.
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.
Join in for this 3-session class designed to get you started with acrylic painting. Enjoy a relaxed and supportive atmosphere in which to grow your creativity.
Explore a mixture of non-press printmaking strategies with botanical textures. We’ll be printing into papers, card stocks, vellums, and some textiles for use as prints and in art projects like collage, assemblage, and the book arts.
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
Come learn the basics of natural dyeing and printing with botanicals in this hands on workshop with local herbalist and natural dyer Maggie Ruth Haaland!
Participants are encouraged to bring in a favorite ornament/ image/holiday remnant that reminds them of the season. We will go over whittling, plaster casting, and clay modeling the first half, then set out to create an ornament from scratch!
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.
Looking for something creative to do with loved ones? Create something beautiful, together, in Family Macrame! Designed for an adult/child to attend together, you'll each create a piece of decorative wall-art. The instructor will teach a variety of knotting techniques, bead-embellishment, as well as discuss material-selection.
Join in for a discussion of drawing and the practice of teaching this medium. Topics will include the variety of ways that artist use drawing in their practice, and the multitude of ways that drawing can be taught. Bring your questions and be ready to engage in this fun evening of dialogue!
Students will explore photographing the landscape (both rural and urban) with new and refreshing perspectives by means of weekly class assignments. We will also view the works of some of the great contemporary landscape photographers and see what makes them interesting.
You'll weave a handwoven infinity scarf using colors and textures of your choosing. The finest luxury designer yarns in natural fibers will be provided in varying materials and thicknesses for a variety of colors and textures.
Create a custom tote-bag from your original, woven fabric. You'll learn to weave cotton fibers on a loom, creating a textile of your choosing. Your instructor will assist with the assembly of your textile into a tote-bag.
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
In this Workshop, you'll learn basic tools and techniques of the folk-art form of Oaxacan wood-carving, passed down through generations, from Oaxacan woodcarver Norbert Fabian, son of the late master Ventura Fabian, who lives and works in the woodcarving village of San Martín Tilcajete, Mexico.
Create beautiful swirls and mottling colors on paper with several forms of marbling. LearnTurkish-style marbling on water thickened with carrageenan (Irish moss).
A basic watercolor class for beginners. We'll learn how to use brush strokes, light and shadow, color etc. to effectively convey realistic scenery and objects.
We'll provide a live figure model at each session and a skilled, professional artist to instruct (developing artists) or critique (experienced artists).
