Student work

Student work

Photography & Surrealist Collage: Erica Hurlburt

Students will create a surrealist collage that incorporates photos they take. The first class will be used to learn about surrealism, find items/people they’d like to photograph for their final piece, and use collage books and magazines to cut out images for their final piece. The second class will be used to arrange and glue their cut outs and their photos to create a surrealist collage.

Student work

Student work

Character Design: Dameon Pearson

Using the element of story telling to create your own original character, with clay, hand drawn or upcycled materials.

 

Zines: Dameon Pearson

Participants will use medium of choice (drawing , collage, paint markers, etc.) to create an original narrative zine to photocopy and distribute to friends and family.

 

 

Paper puppet/ Articulating puppet creations: Dameon Pearson

Participants will design and develop paper puppets at different scales, with articulating parts, based on the specific theme for each session.

*Beading: Juliet Erskine

Designing on graph paper then beading flat peyote stitch bracelets.

Brick stitching small flat charms with motifs, eg ice-cream cone, parrot, etc.

Peyote stitch triangles which can be joined up as a bracelet or used as an earring.

Watercolor Basics: Cassie Wanda Mich

Watercolor is often seen as simple or beginner-friendly, but it’s an expressive medium that requires intention, technique, AND letting go. This class helps students move beyond the “muddy colors” frustration by introducing foundational skills in a clear and supportive way.

Students will learn techniques such as color blending, layering, and brush control while creating 2–3 small, finished pieces. Projects are designed to work with drying time, allowing students to rotate between paintings and stay engaged throughout the class.

Artwork will be created on small-format watercolor paper (4×6), and students can optionally turn their pieces into mailable postcards, encouraging both creativity and connection beyond the classroom.

Handmade Paper & Painting: Cassie Wanda Mich

Students create handmade paper using recycled materials, learning the basics of paper pulp and pressing. Will include possible additives such as plant seeds, foil elements, or dried flowers.

Once dry, students use watercolor to create artwork on their handmade paper, transforming it into a finished piece.

This workshop emphasizes sustainability, process-based art, and the excitement of creating both the surface and the final artwork.

*Bookbinding Mini Journals: Cassie Wanda Mich

Students will learn a simple bookbinding technique inspired by Japanese stab binding to create their own mini journals.

Students can also personalize their covers using paint or drawing materials.

Mix & Match Creatures (Animal + Food Art): Cassie Wanda Mich

What would a cat look like as a mushroom? Or a dinosaur mixed with a campfire treat? In this playful and imaginative class, students will brainstorm together and sketch their favorite animals and foods, then combine them into silly hybrid creations.

Students will develop their ideas through guided sketching and then bring their characters to life using bold, cartoony acrylic painting techniques. From “meowshrooms” to “dinos’mores,” this class encourages creativity, humor, and expressive design while building simple drawing and painting skills.

Photography & Pastels: Erica Hurlburt

During the course of two classes, students will create a transfer drawing in pastel of a photo they take. The first class will involve taking the photo and creating the watercolor backdrop they will transfer the drawing onto. The second class will involve transferring the drawing onto their watercolored page using their printed photo and then adding color and interest to the final image with pastels.

Double Exposure: Erica Hurlburt

Students will learn about double exposure, but will do so in a tactile way instead of in the camera. During the first class, they will learn about double exposure and will take two images with the cameras: one of a subject and one of a texture. The texture photo will be printed on vellum paper and the other photo will be printed on regular paper. They will layer the two images and add extra touches to create a piece of art that mimics double exposure.

Clay totem pole: Patti Martins

Using air dry clay, children can design their own totem pole, using geometric shapes, animal or imaginary features, and adding feathers, beads or other items.

Woodland Creature faces: Patti Martins

Using wood rounds, children will create an image using shaped wood pieces, cardboard and other materials, then paint them.

Air dry clay masks: Patti Martins

⁑Basic drawing skills: Carlos Grasso

Learn to draw the figure and then portraits.

⁑Collaborative painting: Carlos Grasso

On a big canvas or paper we will draw and paint all together. A composite painting, a communal effort!

⁑Paper cut creatures: Carlos Grasso

Drawing and painting with scissors and color construction paper. Draw forms (animals, cities, cartoon characters, etc) and then cut different color paper matching the forms.

Air dry clay: Lynn Farrand

Create and paint an abstract or figurative sculpture with air dry clay.

Mandala painting: Lynn Farrand

Rock painting in mandala designs.

Stocking sculptures: Lynn Farrand

Stocking sculptures using a stocking knee high, wire and styrofoam. The wire shape will form the sculpture but putting a stocking over it will give it mass, while the styrofoam is its base. After it’s formed it gets painted with fabric stiffener and then paint.

Mixed Media Sculptures: Lynn Farrand

Using found objects, glue and wire.

⁑Sock Puppets: Lynn Farrand

Using socks, buttons, thread, felt, glue.

*Abstract Painting: Lynn Farrand