Classes & Workshops

This workshop series invites participants to engage with a variety of materials through guided, hands-on exercises. Each session is designed to encourage intuitive making, helping participants relax into the creative process without pressure or expectation. Through mindful exploration of texture, form, and composition, participants develop a deeper connection to their artistic voice. The focus is on process over outcome, creating a supportive space for experimentation, presence, and personal expression.

Have you ever wondered how and why the impressionist painted the way they did? 

Would you like to learn to paint like an impressionist yourself?

This class, meant for students at all skill levels, will start from the ground up teaching students how to mix colors like the impressionists and introduce students to various techniques that evolved in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Budget frames cost $200-$300 and high-quality frames cost $400-$800. For any artist, framing is always a pervasive problem and sometimes a crippling cost. Fortunately, with a little bit of knowledge and the right tools and materials, it doesn’t have to be you can build the highest possible quality frame for approximately $80.

Explore Japanese Stab Book Techniques

This engaging, hands-on workshop invites participants to explore the creative possibilities of collage and assemblage. Through an intuitive and experimental approach, participants will then transition into three-dimensional assemblage, working with lines, planes, texture, and found objects to create dynamic spatial compositions.

Create beautiful, one-of-a-kind prints using leaves and grasses straight from the garden! In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll learn how to use a gelatin plate and acrylic paints to make layered botanical prints that are stunning enough to frame or give as gifts.

This open studio event is for creative people to meet and create a book. All book-making materials will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring papers or materials they would like to incorporate into their Artist Book. This event is for those with book-making experience. Adele will provide technical instruction for individuals interested in bringing their creativity to bookmaking.

Enjoy painting with a variety of tools and explore techniques with freedom and ease while focusing on the joy of the creative process. 

Using acrylic paint on glass plates, participants will create expressive prints in both black & white and color. Drawing inspiration from abstract expressionist artists, the process encourages accessing the subconscious and embracing spontaneity.

Give your mother an origami flower bouquet filled with love and personal touch this Mother’s Day💐 Naoko Kamioka, Origami Instructor, will teach how to fold origami flowers

In this one-session workshop, we’ll explore the delight of building gel plate monotypes with transparent color. Using printmaking paper and Golden Open Acrylics, you’ll learn how to create rich, layered images through both additive marks (painting and drawing directly on the plate) and reductive techniques (wiping, lifting, and masking from an inked plate). We’ll also cover basic registration for printing multiple layers in alignment.

Shaped books are a creative approach to presenting art or poetry. They are typically small and have maze-folded signatures.

In this workshop, participants will design a circle book and a triangle book using folding techniques for signature pages.

Celebrate spring by learning how to paint a floral still life with watercolors!

Celebrate spring by learning how to paint a floral still life with watercolors! Students will learn how to mix colors, use different brush strokes and become acquainted with wet versus dry methods. Composition and the concept of values are part of the instruction.

Discover the satisfying, addictive world of screenprinting in this hands-on workshop! You'll learn how to cut your own stencil design in stencil film, adhere it to a screen, and pull your first prints using water-based inks on paper.