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Inspired Words: Writing to Art 11/7
When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.
Sculptures From Foam to Stone 11/7-11/8
***This is a 2-day workshop Saturday Nov. 7 and Sunday Nov.8***
Create large sculptures for your house and garden with affordable materials such as styrofoam, wood, or found objects. Build stunning, stone-like objects without the weight and cost of real stone. Carve lightweight styrofoam into custom abstract, architectural, or organic forms. Coat them with a durable concrete finish that mimics the look and feel of stone.
Foundations of Press Mold Making 11/14-11/15/26
Forging Small Twisted Pendants 11/14/26
Learn how to forge twisted pendants using foundational blacksmithing techniques. This workshop is ideal for beginners seeking an introduction to blacksmithing, as well as those looking to refresh their skills. All supplies provided.
Learn to cut your own mats. Bring your 2D art and a frame and you’ll cut windows and assemble your piece to hang in your home, or submit to exhibits.
Chain making is a series of studies from basic loop-in-loop process to more complicated versions and styles for silver chain. Focus on making a Foxtail chain bracelet using 24-gauge fine silver wire. Learn soldering rings with the flame torch, integrate the rings, install clasps, and finish polishing the chain. All supplies provided.
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop Nov 21
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 12/5
When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.
Sculptures From Foam to Stone 12/5-12/6
***This is a 2-day workshop Saturday Dec. 5 and Sunday Dec.6***
Create large sculptures for your house and garden with affordable materials such as styrofoam, wood, or found objects. Build stunning, stone-like objects without the weight and cost of real stone. Carve lightweight styrofoam into custom abstract, architectural, or organic forms. Coat them with a durable concrete finish that mimics the look and feel of stone.
After you’ve figured out the controls of your camera, learn how to make your photography better. Explore the principles of composition, and see examples of what makes a captivating image. Bring your camera (either film or digital) and practice on campus with the instructor guiding you all the way.
Sculpting Bigfoot or Alien 12/12-12/13/26
***This is a 2-day workshop held on Sat & Sun, Sept. 12-13***
Use your imagination and creativity sculpting fantastical beings that exist in your mind’s eye, such as Bigfoot, Alien, or other creatures. Learn the basics of sculpture in a relaxed and fun environment.
Learn to paint florals in still life with soft pastels. The workshop will focus on the structure of flowers in three dimensions and pastel painting techniques. The morning demonstration will cover the pastel painting process followed by independent painting. The afternoon will include continued painting practice with suggestions and feedback.
Intaglio Printmaking Workshop 1/9-1/10 2027
***This is a two day workshop that meets on Saturday, January 9th and Sunday, January 10th, 2027, 9am-5pm***
Learn two intaglio (“incised”) techniques – drypoint using steel needles and plexiglass plates and etching using zinc plates and nitric acid. Printing techniques using either plate will be taught with both single and multiple colors. Etching presses will be introduced and used. Supplies provided.
Exploring Abstract Painting Monday 7 pm
Explore your creativity and master abstract painting by breaking traditional rules. Focus on composition, innovative techniques, form, texture, and color concepts. Be prepared to build your unique artistic vision and confidently paint outside the lines.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Monday)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies provided.
Draw and paint amazing wildlife and their habitats or your own pet using acrylic and/or watercolor. Bring images of your chosen animals and learn how to draw using correct proportions. Practice drawing and painting techniques that you can apply to any other future subject.
Creative Watercolor for Teens (ages 13-17 yrs)
Learn foundational skills and techniques of watercolor painting. Experiment with creative themes to bring your ideas to life with fluid, translucent beauty.
Storytelling With Picture Books (Ages 5-8)
Explore literacy and storytelling through children’s picture books. Create unique multimedia art in the style of some of the greatest and most popular children’s picture book authors and illustrators.
The Art of the Seasons: Winter (Ages 8-12)
Explore the colors, sights, sounds, and smells of Winter with this sensory experience, using two-dimensional multimedia projects to bring a little winter to your home.
Black and White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry and a limited number of free loaner cameras. Basic understanding of 35mm camera controls and functions preferred.
Learn the principles of the ancient art of mosaic. Explore materials, tools, adhesives, etc. Choose from a variety of compositions to create an indoor mosaic. Experiment with color, texture, shape, and composition.
Advance your mosaic skills to the next level. Focus on creating dynamic designs with glass and other materials. Explore precision cutting, layering, color, texture, and advanced composition techniques. Develop an individual project while refining craftsmanship and creative expression. Prereq: Fundamentals of Mosaic or similar exp.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Use hand building and wheel methods to create an animal from a photo or a drawing using simple geometric forms. Start with simple forms on the potter’s wheel and finish your creation using hand building techniques.
Prereq: Hand Building Basics and Beginning Wheel Throwing, or similar experience. Class not suitable for beginners.
Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: Hand Building Across Cultures; Hand Building Basics; or similar experience. Not suitable for beginners.
Hand Building Across Cultures Mon
Explore and celebrate unique clay techniques from cultures around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
Exploring Abstract Painting Tuesday 10 AM
Explore your creativity and master abstract painting by breaking traditional rules. Focus on composition, innovative techniques, form, texture, and color concepts. Be prepared to build your unique artistic vision and confidently paint outside the lines.
Exploring Abstract Painting Tuesday 1PM
Explore your creativity and master abstract painting by breaking traditional rules. Focus on composition, innovative techniques, form, texture, and color concepts. Be prepared to build your unique artistic vision and confidently paint outside the lines.
Enjoy creating with pure color known as pastel. Paint from a still life setup that the instructor will use to demonstrate techniques. You can paint along or bring your own good-quality printed photo to work from. Explore the advantage of underpainting while discovering the beauty of pastel.
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: Drawing I or similar experience
Clay Foundations and Exploration 12:30 PM WG
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.
Clay Foundations and Exploration 6 PM Winter Garden
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.
Wheel Throwing and More! Winter Garden (ages 11-16)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Learn the fundamentals of wheel throwing as you practice creating cups, bowls, and dishes. Add decorative elements with carvings, attachments, and colorful glazes.
Digital Photography I (Tuesday)
Build a strong foundation in photography and take better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field, and basic composition. Demonstrations and assignments with image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their impact on the final photograph. Single-lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available to recommend cameras.
Plastic Cameras: Toying with Science and Art
An extension of the analog black and white introductory class, learn and practice film developing and traditional wet-chemistry printing, but with medium format negatives created with a plastic Holga or Holga-type camera. Delight in this fine art execution utilizing light leaks, vignetting, and the quirky characteristics using one of our plastic cameras, or bring your own Diana, Holga, or bakelite Lubitel!
Totems – Exploration of Idea and Process
Design and build clay totems two to five feet tall. The totems will combine symbols, animals, and personal imagery to tell a story. Use of clay armatures, slab construction, and mold making techniques will be explored. Introduction to presentation and installation.
Create a one-of-a-kind bracelet. Use copper and brass to learn fundamental fabrication techniques and determine how to make a variety of bracelets from start to finish using jewelers’ tools. Explore different designs with step-by-step guidance from the instructor, including resources for tools and supplies for developing your own jewelry studio. This program does not include stone setting.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 10AM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round.
Prerequisite Beginning Wheel Throwing or similar experience Course is not suitable for beginners.
Decorative Clay for the Home – Kitchen Edition
Create functional hand built items for your kitchen. Explore your own style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include oil cruets, butter dishes, drinkware, and storage jars.
Decorative Clay for the Home – Plant and Garden Edition
Create functional hand built items for your garden. Explore your style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include planters, watering cans, plant stakes, and bird feeders.
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes
Transform your landscapes into a rich tapestry of colors and textures by learning how to use layers of paint in your work. A variety of techniques will be introduced to create depth and dimension so you can take your art to the next level.
Painting is more than copying what you see. Discover and explore the beauty of using a limited transparent watercolor palette through demonstrations and critiques. Practice traditional techniques and work towards painting from your own photographs
.Not suitable for beginners.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Wednesday)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies provided.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
Painting & Drawing (Wed, 8-12yrs)
Dive into the exciting world of drawing and painting while exploring a variety of mediums, subjects, and creative possibilities. Build strong foundational skills through observation, capturing your objects with confidence and attention to detail.
Surreal Worlds: Photoshop Magic for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Make surreal artwork using Photoshop. Combine images, experiment with layers, adjust color and lighting, and create unexpected scenes—from frozen fantasy landscapes to tiny worlds inside everyday objects. The class builds Photoshop skills while encouraging creativity, experimentation, and personal style. No previous Photoshop experience is required.
Sculpting for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Have fun making a clay mask and figurine. Learn clay sculpting techniques and how to use sculpting tools. All sculptures will be 3-dimensional, creating animation, texture, and movement. Painting sculptures will be demonstrated.
Mesmerized by pottery posts on TikTok? Create pots on the wheel, then decorate and glaze them for gifts and goodies. Beginning and experienced teens welcome.
Learn to use the iPhone camera to achieve amazing results. Explore various photography modes and useful camera and image processing apps. There will be interactive demonstrations and image reviews.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Wednesday 7pm
Create whimsical figures and abstract welded sculptures. Learn basic cutting and arc welding techniques using found objects and mild steel. Students are encouraged to bring objects for their compositions.
Beyond Clay: Mixed Media Sculpture
Explore sculpture using wood, metal, plastic, toys, cloth, tools, and other objects. Transform everyday objects into expressive forms through cutting, joining, and mold making. Students must bring their own materials from home to create the sculpture with assistance in assemblage and composition.
Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication
Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry 5 pm
Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to writers of all experience levels, as every writer’s voice is unique. levels as your writing is unique to you. Students will write together and share their work through supportive group readings and discussion designed to strengthen their writing. Listening to others’ work also helps strengthen your own writing. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week includes writing exercises and constructive, positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Wednesday 1PM
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Large Format Landscape Painting in Oil
Create large studio landscape paintings (at least 16×20”) from reference photos. Drawings will be transferred using the grid method before starting an underpainting to establish values, design, and composition. Not suitable for beginners. Prereq:Oil I, Fundamentals of Color, Design, and Composition, or similar exp.
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
Beginning Portrait Drawing with Live Model
Learn the technical aspects of drawing the human head. Working from a live model and other sources, gain experience and familiarity with both pencil and charcoal, exploring the genre’s expressive possibilities.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
Learn the fundamentals of wheel throwing as you practice creating cups, bowls, and dishes. Add decorative elements with carvings, attachments, and colorful glazes.
Advanced Darkroom: The Fine Print
This advanced course is for students ready to pursue exhibition-quality silver gelatin printing on fiber-based paper. The course emphasizes the craft of fine printing — tailoring negative development to the final print, advanced contrast control, archival processing, and the expressive use of toning. Not suitable for beginners.
Prerequisite: Black and White Film I and II or similar experience.
Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.
Fundamentals of Abstract Sculpture
Work with clay to explore the fundamentals of sculpture through abstract, minimalist, and conceptual forms. Learn basic sculpting techniques while exploring shape, balance, negative space, texture, and composition.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thursday 7PM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Thursday 1PM
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Thursday 10 AM
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Flowers and Clay: A Perspective
Roseville Pottery, from the early 1900’s, created timeless pottery lines inspired by flowers. Be inspired by vintage Art Pottery as we design and craft floral and botanical ceramics using sculpting, molding, and carving techniques. Not suitable for beginners. Prereq: Hand Building Basics or similar exp.
Hand Building Basics – Thursday
Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.
Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition
Learn to mix paint pigments to achieve any hue according to its value and intensity. With a split primary palette oil paint arrangement, exercises show that mixing complementary color relationships is crucial. Topics include various color models and suggestions for color harmony and basic design and compositional elements.
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
Build a strong foundation in photography and take better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field, and basic composition. Demonstrations and assignments with image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their impact on the final photograph. Single-lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available to recommend cameras.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Friday 10 am
Prereq: Sculpture I or similar exp.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Friday 1 pm
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Pinched and Coiled Vessels and More
Learn hand building techniques like pinching and coiling, and how to combine them. You will learn how to create vessels and functional ware and how to layer underglaze and glazes to embellish your forms. Let your imagination run wild with the guidance of an experienced instructor. Prereq: Hand Building Basics or similar exp.
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and collage. They will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Dive into the exciting world of drawing and painting as you explore a variety of mediums, subjects, and creative possibilities. Build strong foundational skills through observation, capturing your objects with confidence and attention to detail.
Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums, including acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and collage. and develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Birdhouse Bungalows (Ages 5-8)
The birds are headed south for the winter! Learn hand-building basics to make one-of-a-kind houses and feeders that give our feathered friends a cozy place to stay year-round.
Cartooning and Cosplay (ages 8-12)
Before digital photography, there was film. Take pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, and print photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
Painting & Drawing (Sat, 8-12yrs)
Dive into the exciting world of drawing and painting while exploring a variety of mediums, subjects, and creative possibilities. Build strong foundational skills through observation, capturing your objects with confidence and attention to detail.
Cozy Clay Creations (Ages 8-12)
Hot chocolate and a plate of cookies, please! Learn slab and hand-building techniques to create unique sets of mugs, bowls, plates, and dishes.
Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)
Explore new materials – watercolor, acrylic, markers, colored pencils, and other mediums. Projects like collage, printmaking, and designing and painting compositions encourage creativity and self-expression. Embark on a colorful adventure where your imagination knows no bounds.
Acrylic Painting for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Learn essential techniques, color mixing, and creative expression using fast-drying acrylic paints. From traditional to contemporary, explore texture, layering, and composition while developing your style.
Figure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)
Learn figure drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastels. Explore anatomy, gesture, line, proportion, composition, and tone, working with a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Learn basic techniques of the alla prima (direct) method of applying oil paint. Practice paint application, brushwork, and mixing color using a split-primary palette. Working from still life setups, complete one weekly study to explore techniques for rendering glass, ceramic, metal, and organic objects. Learn to see and copy the color value and intensity changes in color. The course includes demonstrations of techniques and discussions of the methods, materials, and supplies used in oil painting.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 4)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 7)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Hand Building Basics – Sunday 4 pm
Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.
Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures
Discover how meditation and working with clay can help you decompress and recharge. Begin with a short 5-minute guided meditation with clay. Experiment with hand building, stamp making, and underglaze layering techniques to create a series of vessels. Feel centered and inspired, ready to greet a new week.
Glazed and Confused: Raw Materials and Ceramics Chemistry
Explore commonly used raw materials in ceramics and their purpose. From making test tiles for throwers and hand builders to learning how to formulate clay bodies, slips, engobes, underglazes, and glazes, you will leave this class with a better understanding of the chemistry behind the material.
Welding Workshop – Create Figures and Faces 1/30-31
Sculptures From Foam to Stone 2/6-2/7/2027
***This is a 2-day workshop Saturday February 6 and Sunday February 7***
Create large sculptures for your house and garden with styrofoam, wood, or found objects. Build stunning, stone-like objects without the weight and cost of real stone. Carve styrofoam into abstract, architectural, or organic forms. Coat them with a durable concrete finish that mimics the look and feel of stone.
***This is a 2-day workshop, meets Saturday 2/6 – Sunday 2/7/2027***
Learn basic sculpture techniques working in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln.
History of Photography in the 20th Century
Learn the history of photography, influential 20th century photographers that shaped the art, ending with a live demonstration of how a print is made in our spacious darkroom.
The Art of Painting With Light Workshop 2/12 and 2/19
****This is a two-day workshop. Meetings are on Fridays, February 12 and 19 | 7 – 9 pm****
Learn the process of creating dynamic images using various light sources to paint light onto images of objects and/or people. Included are hands-on demonstrations and in-depth instruction on light painting.
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop Feb 13
Maquette Design – Creating 3D Designs
***This is a 2-day workshop, meets on Sunday, February 14th and Sunday, February 21st, 10am-4pm***
In this two-day workshop, create small 3D models and clay sketches for larger artworks. The instructor will demonstrate ideas for architectural settings and garden sculptures.
Wed. Feb. 17 | 7-9 pm ZOOM
Forging Small Twisted Pendants 2/20/2027
Learn to make twisted pendants. The basic techniques include the foundations of blacksmithing. Get an introduction to the craft or brush up on your skills. Supplies provided.
***This is a 2-day workshop. Meets on Sunday February 21st and Sunday March 7th***
Love your garden? Complete your outdoor escape with a handmade terra cotta Garden Angel to bring peace and serenity. On the first day, you will build your angel and decorate with personal touches. Return for the second day to glaze your fanciful garden decor.
Painting Transparent Glass Vessels
***This is a 2-day workshop. Meeting Saturday 2/27/26 and Sunday 2/28/26 10am-4pm***
Through demonstrations and one-on-one instruction, learn the magic of creating believable paintings of transparent glass vessels such as jars, bottles, and vases in oil or acrylic. Capture light, reflections, and the illusion of real glass. Instruction will include preliminary drawings, composition, value, edges, and color. Setups provided, including glass vessels, fruit, and backdrops.
Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for Garden and Home 2/27
Pastel: Painting with Pure Color
Pastel allows you to work with the purest form of color available to artists. Participants will learn how to incorporate movement, luminosity, color temperature, and mystery into their paintings. We will also explore underpainting. Students will work from a still life. Supplies provided.
The Human Figure: Collaborating with Watercolor
Explore the basics of applying ceramic glazes with a spray gun. Learn to set up the spray gun, prepare glaze, adjust air pressure and spray patterns, apply smooth, even coats to ceramic work, layer up to 2 glazes, and clean and troubleshoot. The hands-on portion of the workshop requires one bisque ware piece for cone 6 glazing.
Learn to cut your own mats. Bring your 2D art and a frame and you’ll cut windows and assemble your piece to hang in your home, or submit to exhibits.
***This is a 2-day workshop. Meeting Saturday 3/13/26 and Sunday 3/14/26, 10am-2pm***
Traditional drawing processes can be used to explore alternative ways of depicting reality. This workshop will teach students to develop an open-ended approach to drawing that allows room for interpretation, for questioning the nature of vision, and for finding personal means of expression.
Gouache, a beautiful opaque water-soluble paint, has been around for centuries. It is loved by artists working with many other materials and in a variety of techniques. Explore the unique multi-dimensional qualities of this medium and complete paintings in free style, using its versatility.
Observing Shapes and Movement in Landscapes
***This class is not suitable for beginners***
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Monday)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies provided.
Portrait Painting in Oil (Winter Garden)
Ready to level up your creativity? This class will provide you with the tools, tips, and guided steps to expand your watercolor knowledge in a fun, approachable way. Work on a group project or independently.
Prereq: Beginning Watercolor or similar experience.
Pastel for Teens (ages 13-17 yrs)
Explore the rich, vibrant world of pastel. Learn to use soft and oil pastel to create expressive artwork, mastering blending, layering, and texture. The class encourages experimentation and personal creativity with this colorful, practical medium.
Storytelling With Picture Books (Ages 5-8)
Explore literacy and storytelling through children’s picture books. Create unique multimedia art in the style of some of the greatest and most popular children’s picture book authors and illustrators.
The Art of the Seasons: Spring (Ages 8-12)
Use two-dimensional multimedia projects to explore the colors, sights, sounds and smells of spring and delight your senses.
Learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling using your smartphone or iPhone’s video camera: dynamic shots and angles, creating excitement through movement and the magic of editing.
Black and White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry and a limited number of free loaner cameras. Basic understanding of 35mm camera controls and functions preferred.
***This class will be presented as a hybrid learning opportunity, with classroom instruction via Zoom and on-location field trips***
Catch the shot and the passion for bird photography! Explore techniques on how to get as close as possible to the bird’s environment while capturing that prize photograph. Practice these techniques during instructor-led field trips with lifelong birder and bird photographer, Milton Heiberg.
Prereq: Digital Photo I or similar experience and a 300mm lens. if you are planning to purchase a lens, please wait until after the first class.
Learn the principles of the ancient art of mosaic. Explore materials, tools, adhesives, etc. Choose from a variety of compositions to create an indoor mosaic. Experiment with color, texture, shape, and composition.
Advance your mosaic skills to the next level. Focus on creating dynamic designs with glass and other materials. Explore precision cutting, layering, color, texture, and advanced composition techniques. Develop an individual project while refining craftsmanship and creative expression. Prereq: Fundamentals of Mosaic or similar exp.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: Hand Building Across Cultures; Hand Building Basics; or similar experience. Not suitable for beginners.
Hand Building Across Cultures Mon
Explore and celebrate unique clay techniques from cultures around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
Exploring Abstract Painting Tuesday 10 AM
Explore your creativity and master abstract painting by breaking traditional rules. Focus on composition, innovative techniques, form, texture, and color concepts. Be prepared to build your unique artistic vision and confidently paint outside the lines.
Exploring Abstract Painting Tuesday 1PM
Explore your creativity and master abstract painting by breaking traditional rules. Focus on composition, innovative techniques, form, texture, and color concepts. Be prepared to build your unique artistic vision and confidently paint outside the lines.
Bring your still life paintings to life by mastering the interplay between underpainting and color harmony. Explore acrylic painting techniques, and foundational color theory concepts which are applied beneath your final layers to create vibrant works with a bold pop of color.
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: Drawing I or similar experience
Clay Foundations and Exploration 12:30 PM WG
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.
Clay Foundations and Exploration 6 PM Winter Garden
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.
Creating with Clay Winter Garden (Ages 8-13)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Build, sculpt, and experiment with clay using a variety of hand building techniques. Create anything from nature-inspired sculptures to functional pieces and imaginative keepsakes while exploring slabs, coils, texture, and attachments. Each piece will be finished with colorful glazes to bring the final details to life.
Digital Photography I (Tuesday)
Build a strong foundation in photography and take better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field, and basic composition. Demonstrations and assignments with image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their impact on the final photograph. Single-lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available to recommend cameras.
Learning from the Masters of Photography
Sculpt masks and figurines in clay. Learn to enhance the aesthetic and structural qualities. Students will be given the option of using stains and glazes.
Metal sculpture is known as Repoussé, which involves working metal directly to create relief sculptures without molds. Learn small-scale techniques to understand the fundamental steps and tools for metal embossing. Repoussé creates embossed relief sculptures and offers endless design possibilities for sculptural jewelry and metalsmithing, relief murals, doors, mirrors, etc. Emphasize using your personal drawings and ideas, and work with handmade punches to move the metal and create relief dimension.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 10AM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round.
Prerequisite Beginning Wheel Throwing or similar experience Course is not suitable for beginners.
Decorative Clay for the Home – Kitchen Edition
Create functional hand built items for your kitchen. Explore your own style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include oil cruets, butter dishes, drinkware, and storage jars.
Decorative Clay for the Home – Plant and Garden Edition
Create functional hand built items for your garden. Explore your style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include planters, watering cans, plant stakes, and bird feeders.
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes
Transform your landscapes into a rich tapestry of colors and textures by learning how to use layers of paint in your work. A variety of techniques will be introduced to create depth and dimension so you can take your art to the next level.
Creative Color with Transparent Watercolor
Painting is more than copying what you see. Discover and explore the beauty of using a limited transparent watercolor palette through demonstrations and critiques. Practice traditional techniques and work towards painting from your own photographs
.Not suitable for beginners.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Wednesday)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies provided.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
Painting & Drawing (Wed, 8-12yrs)
Dive into the exciting world of drawing and painting while exploring a variety of mediums, subjects, and creative possibilities. Build strong foundational skills through observation, capturing your objects with confidence and attention to detail.
Mesmerized by pottery posts on TikTok? Create pots on the wheel, then decorate and glaze them for gifts and goodies. Beginning and experienced teens welcome.
***Hybrid class, Studio 3 and Zoom***
Prereq: Digital Photo I or similar exp.
Black and White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Weds)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry and a limited number of free loaner cameras. Basic understanding of 35mm camera controls and functions preferred.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Wednesday 7pm
Beyond Clay: Mixed Media Sculpture
Explore sculpture using wood, metal, plastic, toys, cloth, tools, and other objects. Transform everyday objects into expressive forms through cutting, joining, and mold making. Students must bring their own materials from home to create the sculpture with assistance in assemblage and composition.
Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication
Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry 5 pm
Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to writers of all experience levels, as every writer’s voice is unique. levels as your writing is unique to you. Students will write together and share their work through supportive group readings and discussion designed to strengthen their writing. Listening to others’ work also helps strengthen your own writing. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week includes writing exercises and constructive, positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Wednesday 1PM
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Tips and Tricks for Painting Portraits in Oil
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
Drawing II: Expanding Your Skills
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
Learn the fundamentals of wheel throwing as you practice creating cups, bowls, and dishes. Add decorative elements with carvings, attachments, and colorful glazes.
Through in-depth assignments and image reviews, students more deeply explore composition, lighting, lenses and flash photography. A field trip on the 5th Saturday of the session will further develop skills for real time applications. Demonstrations on basic image processing and printing techniques along with preparing photographs for online presentation will be included. Prereq: Digital Photo I or similar exp.
Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.
Fundamentals of Abstract Sculpture
Work with clay to explore the fundamentals of sculpture through abstract, minimalist, and conceptual forms. Learn basic sculpting techniques while exploring shape, balance, negative space, texture, and composition.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thursday 7PM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Thursday 1PM
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Thursday 10 AM
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
The plasticity of clay can capture an imprint of an ephemeral object and give it permanence with firing – the veins of a leaf, an embroidered hanky, a carved block. Use unique objects to create personal stamps, rollers and sprig molds to decorate hand built forms. Prereq: Hand Buiding Basics or similar exp.
Hand Building Basics – Thursday
Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.
Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition
Learn to mix paint pigments to achieve any hue according to its value and intensity. With a split primary palette oil paint arrangement, exercises show that mixing complementary color relationships is crucial. Topics include various color models and suggestions for color harmony and basic design and compositional elements.
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
Build a strong foundation in photography and take better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field, and basic composition. Demonstrations and assignments with image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their impact on the final photograph. Single-lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available to recommend cameras.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Friday 10 am
Prereq: Sculpture I or similar exp.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Friday 1 pm
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Pinched and Coiled Vessels and More
Learn hand building techniques like pinching and coiling, and how to combine them. You will learn how to create vessels and functional ware and how to layer underglaze and glazes to embellish your forms. Let your imagination run wild with the guidance of an experienced instructor. Prereq: Hand Building Basics or similar exp.
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and collage. They will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Dive into the exciting world of drawing and painting as you explore a variety of mediums, subjects, and creative possibilities. Build strong foundational skills through observation, capturing your objects with confidence and attention to detail.
Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums, including acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and collage. and develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Let’s go to the zoo! Use hand building techniques to sculpt your favorite creatures and critters. The perfect pocket pal.
Cartooning and Cosplay (ages 8-12)
Before digital photography, there was film. Take pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, and print photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
Painting & Drawing (Sat, 8-12yrs)
Dive into the exciting world of drawing and painting while exploring a variety of mediums, subjects, and creative possibilities. Build strong foundational skills through observation, capturing your objects with confidence and attention to detail.
Let your imagination take over and create clay works inspired by dreams, fantasy, and make-believe worlds. Use hand building techniques to bring your wildest ideas to life – from magical creatures to strange landscapes!
Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)
Explore new materials – watercolor, acrylic, markers, colored pencils, and other mediums. Projects like collage, printmaking, and designing and painting compositions encourage creativity and self-expression. Embark on a colorful adventure where your imagination knows no bounds.
Film Photo Magic for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)
Art Odyssey for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Paint and draw with inspiration from art masters such as Michelangelo, Picasso, and Van Gogh. Use various materials like oil pastel, watercolor, and charcoal.
Drawing Intensive for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Explore a variety of drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastel. Emphasis will be placed on improving technique, speed, composition, and understanding of anatomy. Each class will present a fresh, challenging still life that may include a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Sculptures From Foam to Stone 4/3-4/4/2027
***This is a 2-day workshop Saturday April 3rd and Sunday April 4th***
Create large sculptures for your house and garden with styrofoam, wood, or found objects. Build stunning, stone-like objects without the weight and cost of real stone. Carve styrofoam into abstract, architectural, or organic forms. Coat them with a durable concrete finish that mimics the look and feel of stone.
Learn basic techniques of the alla prima (direct) method of applying oil paint. Practice paint application, brushwork, and mixing color using a split-primary palette. Working from still life setups, complete one weekly study to explore techniques for rendering glass, ceramic, metal, and organic objects. Learn to see and copy the color value and intensity changes in color. The course includes demonstrations of techniques and discussions of the methods, materials, and supplies used in oil painting.
After you’ve figured out the controls of your camera, learn how to make your photography better. Explore the principles of composition, and see examples of what makes a captivating image. Bring your camera (film or digital) and practice on campus with the instructor guiding you all the way.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Sunday 10:30
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 4)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 7)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Hand Building Basics – Sunday 10 am
Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.
Take this opportunity to learn and practice various glaze application techniques, including airbrushing, spraying, peacock glazing, layering, etc. Students will learn how to make test tiles and basic forms to practice glazing on and may bring bisqueware made outside of class with the teacher's permission.
Ikebana Pottery: The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
Create hand built containers specific to Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, using simple design principles that celebrate space, movement, and form. Make the container on the first day; learn the art of Ikebana and make your own arrangements using your finished containers on the second day.
Fundamentals of Sculpture 4/10-4/11/27
***This is a 2-day workshop, meets Saturday 4/10 – Sunday 4/11/2027***
Learn basic sculpture techniques working in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln.
Silver Metal Clay Jewelry Design
Unlock the magic of fine silver metal clay and transform a seemingly simple piece of clay into pure fine silver jewelry. Guided step-by-step, roll, imprint, and shape the fine silver clay into a unique pendant or earrings. Witness the magic as your creation is fired and transformed into a wearable work of art. All supplies provided.
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop May 1
Hand-Coloring Black and White Film Prints
Paint or tint your photo. A black-and-white film photography instructor will show you different ways to add color, whether tinting with oils or opaque acrylics.
Memories in the Making: Slab-Built Vessels
***This is a 2-day workshop. Meets: Saturday, May 8th 12-4pm in room 7 and Saturday, May 22, 12-2 pm in room 4B***
Bring your stories! Make slab-built vessels to celebrate our favorite memories. Using stained slips, underglazes, and hand-building tools, learn to layer color, stenciling, and texture to create fun, functional vases about laughter and love. Your work will spark conversations for years to come.
Vibrant Oil Painting & Palette Knife Workshop
***Workshop takes place Saturday & Sunday, May 15 and 16, 10am – 4pm***
Learn the intricacies of palette knife painting using oil. Discover the hidden brilliance and clarity of the colors, and how they affect one another on the canvas. Your instructor will introduce you to and guide you through oil painting techniques, color mixing, composition, and palette knife application. Bring your own images or use references provided by the instructor. Experience the joy of painting, creating, and learning to be in the moment. Not suitable for beginners.
Gypsy-Flush Style Stone Setting
Expressive Still Life with Emphasis on Flowers 5/22 and 5/23