Working with Silver Clay is an exciting process where the inexperienced can explore their artistic abilities and create unique one of a kind items. Come join this exciting class where beginners can easily learn to create earrings, pendants, charms, beads, bracelets, and rings. Experience a new creative adventure and learn how easy and fun it is to make beautiful items from Precious Metal Clay (PMC) or Art Clay Silver (ACS). Materials fee of $80 is payable to the instructor on the first night of class. *No Class: 4/23.

The knife is, perhaps, the most important tool. For thousands of years, humans have used knives made of metal and stone to cut, scrape, carve, dig, gouge and separate various materials so they can be used or consumed. Knives are still used, of course, in the modern world, but many of us have forgotten how to use them anywhere outside the kitchen. We can enhance our own sense of confidence and resilience by practicing basic knife safety skills, and have fun carving! Gain a comprehensive overview of carving knives and how to use them. Practice using metal and stone knives to carve some basic eating implements from wood: fine chopsticks and/or a jam spreader. Next, try to make a spinning top! We’ll cover safety, techniques, good form, and various basic carving projects. *Program includes all required tools and materials.

Come learn the basics of macrame in this 1-day workshop designed to introduce you to the craft. We will cover basic terminology and techniques that will help you get started with a small project, a plant hanger. A $10 materials fee, payable to the instructor, must be paid on the night of the workshop.

Do you have clothes that need patching? Or perhaps an old pair of jeans that could use a fresh look? Come learn sashiko, the Japanese art of visible mending, where we will patch our clothes with a purposefully visible stitch pattern to strengthen and beautify them all at once. Students will learn how to create sashiko stitches using a gridding technique and the running stitch. Everyone will begin their projects in class and leave equipped with all the tools and confidence to finish this wonderful technique on their own. Kindly signup at least 2 weeks prior to the class start date. All students will receive their own sashiko needle, thread, and patch. *Please bring a pair of scissors, a ruler, and sewing pins or safety pins if you have them.

In this class, we will follow step by step instructions to create an interactive greeting card. You will leave with an adorable bat themed pop up card! We will also make a Halloween treat holder to give to a special someone. Precut kits and envelopes are provided. Participants need a pair of scissors and colored pencils or markers.

This all-levels class explores botanical illustration with watercolor, pen and ink. Students will learn principles of scientific illustration through painting subjects ranging from mushrooms to wildflowers, focusing on observational drawing and precision watercolor painting techniques. 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).

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

*THIS COURSE IS 5 WEEKS.

In this class we will explore three different hand bound books that can be used for special photographs, travel journals or scrap books. On the first evening we will emboss frames in our book pages and bind them as a button hole book. The second night we will create a folded triptych photo frame, which can stand on display. Finally we will make a stab-binding with added thickness in the spine for scrapbook materials. A materials fee of $30 payable to the instructor is due on the first night. Tools will also be provided.

In this class, we will incorporate some basic macrame with elements of basic weaving. Accessible to all, we will explore knots and wool roving to see what we can create! All materials provided, but students are encouraged to bring dried flowers, pieces of bark, seashells/rocks or any pieces of nature they would like to incorporate into their hanging. Options to create a standard macraweave wall hanging, or for the more experienced/adventurous knotter, try your hand at a macraweave moon! A materials fee of $20 must be paid to the instructor on the first night of class.