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.

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.

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!

Taken a basic macrame workshop or learned a bit on your own?  Take your macrame to the next level with Intermediate Macrame.  Class includes demonstrations of how to use various knotting techniques to create more complex patterns, how to add beads, mix colors and choose types of ropes and strings that will allow you to design, create and experiment with your own style.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Darning is 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.