Workshops
Fall Session: September 15 - November 8
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Stained Glass
In this fun workshop, stained glass artist Elyse Marie will guide you in making a beautiful Pumpkin Suncatcher.
No Stained Glass experience is necessary. All materials are included
Two Dates to Choose From:
October 25, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Or
October 26, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Instructor: Elyse Marie
Price: $95
Classes are subject to cancellation if enrollment is low. No refunds after first class.
Torn Paper Mosaic
Two Day Workshop:
November 15, 10am to 1pm
November 16, 10am to 1pm
In this two-day workshop, taught by artist, Abby Diamond, you’ll learn to create colorful, unique, and evocative landscape mosaics with torn pieces of magazine paper.
All supplies are provided.
Price: $75.00
Instructor: Abby Diamond
Classes are subject to cancellation if enrollment is low.
No refunds after first class.
Taking her inspiration from nature, artist Abby Diamond creates colorful, unique, and evocative landscape collages using torn piece of magazine paper. Her Torn Paper Mosaics skillfully combine methods and theory learned from oil, watercolor and Chinese brush painting to create pure expressions of color, layer, shape, texture, and outline. Her work has been widely shown. A resident of Tujunga, Abby can often be found working in her native California plant garden when she is not indulging her passion for travel.
Relief Printmaking
Two Day Workshop:
October 21, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
October 28, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Discover ways to create a colored print through the use of Relief Printmaking. Learn about the hand printing process of carving and inking a linoleum block. Through the use of mark making, we can develop technical skill and personal expression. We will go over the steps of transferring images onto a block and explore the use of color and value. No prior experience is required, just imagination and creativity.
Price: $85.00
Instructor: Gisela Ramirez
Gisela Ramirez has a BFA in Printmaking and a BA in Art Education from California State University - Chico. Her unique artwork highlights humanitarian issues, bringing to light the struggles of marginalized communities. She draws inspiration from her family’s migration story and subsequent struggles. As an art educator, she enjoys helping children and adults express their own stories and individuality.
Gisela is a recipient of the Janet Turner Print Memorial Scholarship for excellence in printmaking and the Lt. Robert Merton Rawlins Merit Award for outstanding academic and professional accomplishments.