ONSITE: Design + Carve Stamps
Design and carve your own stamps using linocut printmaking methods. Learn how to transfer your own designs, keep your tools sharp, and ink up your creations.
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ONSITE: Cuttlefish Bone Casting
A simple, traditional metal casting technique that takes advantage of the finely porous texture of the bone and imparts it on your cast piece. Carve the cuttle fish bone and cast the same day!
read moreONSITE: Flameworking: Making Glass Marbles (B)
Learn the basics of marble making using a propane torch and glass rods. Enjoy generous demonstrations, discussions and time to practice as you explore various marble styles.
read moreONSITE: Long-Pose Portrait Figure Drawing (C)
Participants will draw portraits from a live, clothed figure model. A studio monitor will guide the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided. Open to anyone interested in drawing portraits from a live, clothed figure model.
read moreONSITE: Raku Firing Workshop (D)
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 moreONSITE: Gold Charm Necklace (B)
Craft your own custom gold pendants for a personalized charm necklace. You'll build 2 charms to attach to your dainty cable link chain. We will use some beginner metalsmithing skills to solder, stamp and polish your pieces from start to finish!
read moreONSITE: 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 moreONSITE: Long-Pose Portrait Figure Drawing (F)
Participants will draw portraits from a live, clothed figure model. A studio monitor will guide the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided. Open to anyone interested in drawing portraits from a live, clothed figure model.
read moreONSITE: Stained Glass Workshop: Create a Suncatcher (B)
Learn the basics of working in VisArts' Glass studio by creating a light catcher! Students will learn to cut glass, grind the edges, foil the glass, then solder it all together.
read moreIntaglio Glass Engraving (A) (This class is only offered once a year!)
Explore glass engraving using the intaglio technique. This is a decorative art form used on glass. Students will use a micromotor or dremel with small diamond, stone and polishing burs, on small vessels or glass panels to create exquisite carvings on glass.
read moreONSITE: Figure Drawing (F-B)
These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live, nude figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.
read moreONSITE: Design + Create a Printed Zine using Procreate (This class is only offered two times a year)
Explore zine-making process, an accesible way to self-publish! You'll learn digital design techniques to create miniature zines filled with your own stories and illustrations. We'll start with the basics of Procreate and then learn basic text design and illustration. Expect to walk away from this class with printed copies of your zine to display, trade […]
read moreONSITE: Take + Bake Polymer Clay Workshop (A)
Learn how to sculpt, add texture, and mix colors with polymer clay in this one-day workshop. Students will learn the basics of polymer clay in a process that can be easily replicated in the home studio. Class time will be used to make our creations and students will bake at home.
read moreONSITE: Wheel 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 moreONSITE: Long-Pose Portrait Figure Drawing (A)
Participants will draw portraits from a live, clothed figure model. A studio monitor will guide the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided. open to anyone interested in drawing portraits from a live, clothed figure model.
read moreONSITE: Shibori Dyeing
Learn to dye fabric using the ancient Japanese tradition of shibori, otherwise known as tie-dye. You’ll use fiber reactive dyes to add color to white fabric. Your finished fabric will be perfect for quilting, garment sewing and home decorating.
read moreONSITE: Walk, 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 moreONSITE: Take + Bake Polymer Clay Workshop (B)
Learn how to sculpt, add texture, and mix colors with polymer clay in this one-day workshop. Students will learn the basics of polymer clay in a process that can be easily replicated in the home studio. Class time will be used to make our creations and students will bake at home.
read moreONSITE: Long-Pose Portrait Figure Drawing (H)
Participants will draw portraits from a live, clothed figure model. A studio monitor will guide the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided. Open to anyone interested in drawing portraits from a live, clothed figure model.
read moreONSITE: Embroidery Weaving (This class is only offered twice a year!)
Explore the possibilities of the embroidery stitch in order to create shaped weavings. We will learn three weaving stitch variations to create a sampler and take what we've learned to design and finish an embroidery weaving on canvas.
read moreONSITE: Printed Protest: Posters for Change
Explore the medium of the letterpress poster and its various historical and contemporary uses in protest messaging. Participants will workshop and discuss language, reach, and use and then plan their own poster in a size of their choice. We will cover the basics of safe typesetting, composing a piece, proofing, letterpress printing, using the flat-bed […]
read moreONSITE: Paper Marbling (C)
Learn to create beautiful decorative papers in this one-day workshop! A variety of traditional marbling patterns will be covered with room for experimentation.
read moreONSITE: Introduction to Glass Fusing Workshop
Learn to fuse and slump glass in the kiln. We'll create designs by cutting colored sheet glass, using glass stringers, rods and frits. By layering patterns and firing glass in kilns, students can create tiles, bowls, plates or panels. No previous experience needed.
read moreONSITE: Earrings Earrings Earrings!
Explore a wide array of fabrication processes to create earrings – from simple to decadent! Learn how to create earrings with the wearer in mind. Classes will span in content from how to create lightweight and wearable forms, to fabrication of show stopping creations.
read moreONSITE: Encaustic Painting (C)
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.
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