Join us for a quick workshop to create a beautiful etched glass centerpiece for your winter tablescape. The $20 kit fee includes all tools and supplies you will need to create a beautiful glass centerpiece, you will have several designs to choose from.

Designed for beginners but open to all levels, we will use our pastels in a loose, expressive way to create several quick drawings, with the goal of finding new approaches to a very traditional medium. Using expressive mark-making and bold color choices, we will work from a selection of reference photos from our beautiful state of Maine. An array of mats will be provided, with the goal of everyone leaving with something matted that they would consider worthy of display! *Registration is required by Nov 19th.

In this workshop you will use recycled wool scraps and fairy lights to create a stunning 18” holiday tabletop tree in the festive colors of your choice. Using pieces of old sweaters and other felted remnants, you will combine gorgeous colors and rich textures to create an heirloom quality display that can be enjoyed for years to come. Tree materials are included – bring a glue gun, lots of glue sticks, and a 6’ extension cord.

Capture your own bouquet with watercolor and ink! This all-levels class will explore techniques for illustrative ink drawing with ‘dip pens’, and layering and mixing vibrant and organic hues with watercolor. Students will leave with their own unique composition of a bouquet - which could make a wonderful handmade holiday gift. Students can either buy themselves the required materials - the materials list is linked here - or they can buy material kits from the Mix, an art store in Brunswick (here is a link to a student-grade kit, and here is a link to an artist-grade kit).  *THIS IS A ONE DAY WORKSHOP.

Learn more about instructor Claire Loon Baldwin and see her illustrations for books and magazines on her website: CLICK HERE

So-called “Oriental” or round-leafed bittersweet is a creeping vine with inedible berries that is considered invasive in North America. Frustrating to gardners and arborists, and not readily favored by birds, bittersweet is a largely useless bane on wild land. We can use traditional harvesting techniques to tend Asian bittersweet in the wild: harvesting material for baskets while controlling and suppressing future damaging growth. We will cover identification, responsible collection, materials processing and storage, and creation, including the basics of stake-and-strand twining and weaving. We will shoot for a basket about 8-inches wide and 4-inches deep. Price includes all required tools and materials.

Ed Higgins’ popular charcoal class is back and better than ever, with new prizes awarded at the end of each class for the dirtiest hands! Charcoal is a fluid, forgiving, and beautiful medium, and should be part of every artist’s repertoire. We’ll warm up with speed sketching and then work on individual projects where the subject matter is up to you. The minimum materials list for this class is vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, charcoal pencils, and a large pad of newsprint. Contact the instructor if you have any questions (ed_higgins@icloud.com). *No Class: 12/22, 12/29, 1/19, 2/16.

Ed Higgins’ first sculpture class was so much fun, he’s running it again. This time we’ll boldly explore assemblage. Dimensional artwork built from found objects. You will plan and execute your own projects, collecting what you need along the way. Each class will end with a spotlight on an assemblage sculptor from the history of art. Attendance in one of Ed Higgins’ studio classes is recommended but not required. Open to artists of any experience level. There is no set materials list for this class. Contact the instructor if you have any questions (ed_higgins@icloud.com). Class runs in an open-studio style format. *No Class: 12/22, 12/29, 1/19, 2/16.

A good follow up to Ed’s animal anatomy class last spring. We’ll take a close look at birds and come up with processes that help us observe, capture and express their unique anatomy and essence. As with many of Ed Higgins’ sketching classes, we’ll begin with speed sketching warm ups, and then concentrate on independent study projects. Minimum materials required for the class are a sketchbook, pencil, and white vinyl eraser. Contact the instructor if you have any questions (ed_higgins@icloud.com). *No Class: 12/23, 12/30, 1/20, 2/17.