Leatherworking: Make Your Own Cuff Bracelets
Create unique leather bracelets with pierced designs and snap closures. Measure and cut to fit your wrist and decorate with shapes cut out of the leather. Finish your cuffs with snaps.
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Raku Firing Workshop (B)
Head over to VisArts' courtyard and join us for some raku pottery firing—an exciting approach to pottery surface design! Participants will glaze their pieces, help load them into the kiln, grab a beer or snack across the street at Goatocado, then return to enjoy the campfire-like atmosphere with friends on our back patio.
read moreMetal Clay Medallions (Limited Offering)
Learn to combine metal clay and a molded element with a custom-made, framed back plate to create a vintage-looking medallion. You’ll learn to use a two-part compound to replicate any flat backed item of your choice and emboss a frame design into an easy-to-use texture sheet. Later, you’ll join these two elements to form a […]
read moreLearn to Make Wire Earrings (Limited Offering)
Wire earrings! Learn to manipulate wire using pliers, mandrels and hammers to create unique and elevated styles. We will experiment with flat and dimensional ideas. You will work in copper and make final earrings in Sterling silver.
read moreWheel Throwing for Everyone (C)
Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing? Come throw a pot using white stoneware, then fire and finish your pieces using food-safe glazes.
read moreClay Reclaim Workshop
In this workshop, students will learn the essential skills needed to reclaim and recycle clay in a portable manner, allowing them to continue their ceramic practice at home. They will discover how to make their own plaster bats for drying clay; understand the different stages of clay and the science behind them; and master the […]
read moreEncaustic Painting (A)
Explore encaustic painting for the first time or return to expand your skills. You will work with opaque and transparent colors, layering, using stencils and creating patterns using hot wax.
read moreWalk, Clip, Print: Ecoprinting on Fabric
In this one-day workshop, mindfulness, natural-dyes, and textiles collide to create a communal art-making experience. Students will be taken on a guided walk around The Fan District and learn how to identify plants that can be used for natural dying and eco-printing. Students will explore and create eco-prints on fabric, ink-transfer prints on fabric, and […]
read moreBeyond Stab Bindings: Exploring Japanese Book Forms
In this class, you'll explore unusual Japanese bookmaking techniques. We’ll start with a simple traditional stab binding, building on our new skills to make several different books with thread and paper. Students will go home with a small library of books and the skills to make more. All levels welcome, though some prior bookmaking experience […]
read moreSoldering Intensive
This weekend workshop is a great class for the beginner who would like to learn the most fundamental technique to metal working: high temperature silver soldering. This class is also a great refresh for students who who would like to brush up on their soldering skills.
read moreAcrylic Collage Workshop
Create paintings using collage techniques. We’ll begin by creating a series of small media experiments with acrylic paint. Then we’ll incorporate those experiments into a larger collage on panel.
read moreThe Life + Work of Matsuo Basho
Born in a time characterized by intense change throughout Japan, Matsuo Kinsaku, later known as Matsuo Basho, becomes the most famous poet of the Edo period. Both his poetry and prose continue to inspire readers and writers today. Come learn about his life and work and then write and workshop your own Basho inspired poem.
read moreFlameworking: Making Glass Beads (A)
Learn the basics of using a torch and mandrel to wind hot glass into beautiful beads that are perfect for jewelry.
read moreRaku Firing Workshop (A)
Head over to VisArts' courtyard and join us for some raku pottery firing—an exciting approach to pottery surface design! Participants will glaze their pieces, help load them into the kiln, grab a beer or snack across the street at Goatocado, then return to enjoy the campfire-like atmosphere with friends on our back patio.
read moreFlameworking Glass Flora
Explore the world of flameworking and sculpting with glass. You’ll learn basic sculpting and forming techniques for borosilicate glass on the torch and gain an understanding of welds and connections by constructing flowers and other organic forms.
read moreWheel Throwing for Everyone (B)
Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing? Come throw a pot using white stoneware, then fire and finish your pieces using food-safe glazes.
read moreWTF (Woman, Trans, Femme) Woodworking: Utensils (B)
This class is a safe space for women, trans, and femme folks to learn introductory woodworking techniques. Students will learn to make spoons & spatulas in all different shapes and sizes! Students will gain experience using the band saw, electric sanders, hand tools and drill press. We will respect marginalized identities, be patient with one […]
read moreIntroduction to Woodworking: Create a Cutting Board
Learn the ins and outs of the woodshop by creating a cutting board! In this class, you'll learn safety protocol and the basics of milling. We'll explore introductory use of the jointer, planer, table saw, chop saw, and band saw. At the end, you'll sand and finish your final product!
read moreSanggam: Korean Slip Inlay Workshop (Limited Offering)
Expand your ceramic decoration skillset by learning sanggam, a traditional Korean slip inlay technique. This one-day workshop will include a history of this Korean ceramic practice and time to explore the technique ourselves. You will receive several test tiles to practice on and a bowl to decorate.
read moreIntroduction to Woodblock Printing
Explore woodblock printing, humanity’s oldest printmaking process. You’ll learn to design and transfer an image onto the block and cut the block to produce a relief image. Then, we’ll cover how to transfer the image to paper, both printing it by hand and by press.
read morePortrait Photography Workshop
Elevate your portrait photography skills through hands-on practice and guidance. Explore advanced techniques in composition, lighting, posing, and storytelling, as well as DSLR camera basics. Learn how to guide and direct models with confidence to capture authenticity. Perfect for beginner photographers seeking to refine their craft and create beautiful portraits they are proud of!
read moreShort Story Workshop: One-Day Intensive (Limited Offering)
This one-session workshop class is for fiction writers (new or long-term) looking to try out the workshop experience, get fresh feedback on their work, and make new connections in the process. Students will submit and read each other's work prior to class.
read moreWheel Throwing Two-Part Vases
In this class, you will throw two separate parts and learn how to combine them together, creating a tall vase or bottle. This two-part techniquie will help you create a form that may otherwise be out of reach.
read moreWTF (Woman, Trans, Femme) Woodworking: Make a Stool
This class is a safe space for women, trans, and femme folks to learn introductory woodworking techniques. You'll learn to make a simple stool and be able to customize it. Gain experience using the table saw, mitre saw, band saw, jointer and planer. We will respect marginalized identities, be patient with one another, use accessible […]
read moreIntroduction to Metal Jewelry Workshop (B)
Discover the fundamental concept of jewelry design and learn basic techniques for working with metals in this introductory class. The class begins with instruction on techniques such as drilling, sawing, texturing, working with wire, and finishing techniques. Soldering with a torch will also be introduced. Students will then use these skills to make a piece […]
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