Learning opportunities from working artists
Monthly Coordinator: Susan Walker
Join a small group of working artists each month for an evening of collaboration and critique facilitated by a guest artist each session. The guest artists are professional artists and/or faculty members at UW, …
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Facilitator: Karen Abel
NOTE: After May this workshop is on hiatus for the summer and will return to the schedule in September.
Enjoy the wonders of clay with your child and do something fun on early release day. Clay and basic instruction will be provided for an afternoon drop-in …
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Instructor: Jamie McKay
Jump into the exciting world of fusing silver wire to create a fine silver link bracelet with a custom clasp and matching earrings. Each session starts with torch & studio safety. Take one session or take more to continue improving your skills! …
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Instructor: Michelle Brode
This ongoing workshop invites participants to use the creative process as a means of self-exploration. Each session begins with writing an intention for this creative time—what is your desire, what is your wish for the time and space with which you have …
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Instructor: Gail Baker
Images and feelings were our first language prior to verbal and written language. Carl Jung developed Visual Journaling as a way to look into the unconscious, giving it form in images and symbols. In this contemplative workshop, you will have an opportunity …
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Instructor: Jamie McKay
Have fun learning to work borosilicate glass rod in an open flame on a bench mounted torch. Take one workshop in the series or take them all! No experience required, as each session …
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Instructor: Gail Baker
Images and feelings were our first language prior to verbal and written language. Carl Jung developed Visual Journaling as a way to look into the unconscious, giving it form in images and symbols. In this contemplative workshop, you will have an opportunity …
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Facilitator: Reisha Holton
Lace up your hiking boots or slip on those walking shoes. Stash your sack lunch in your backpack. It’s an artist field trip! There’s nothing like nature and the outdoors to inspire creative work. This 3-hour event will be a Thoreau-type experience: a …
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figure drawing by Bob Welsh
Coordinators: Ellen Borison & Lee Berry
These open model sessions offer participants the opportunity to practice drawing from the nude model without instruction. In the Short Pose Session, the first hour will typically …
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Instructors: Becky Brooks and Liz Ruest
You’ve heard of Facebook; you might even have an account. But how comfortable are you using it? This workshop will be a combination of demonstration and hands-on learning to help clarify the layout, the jargon, and the etiquette.
We’ll cover the basics of …
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Instructor: Ellen Borison
Twyla Tharp is a dancer/choreographer who in her 40 year career introduced a new vocabulary to dance.Her book, The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life, is a meditation on the sources of creativity, drawn …
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Facilitator/Host: Reisha Holton
The Pondering Pub is excited to introduce a new element to the Eastside’s only open creative space: Show and Tell.
Creative time will be from 6-8pm in the Art Center. Browse through the “library” of books and prompts, catch up on your own reading, sketch …
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Instructors: Becky Brooks & Liz Ruest
You paint, you draw, you throw a pot, or you write. But does the computer send you scurrying? After this set of classes, you will …
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Coordinator: Ellen Borison
These open model sessions offer participants the opportunity to work from a live model without instruction. Each session will offer a composition suitable for painting with either a draped model or a nude mise-en-scène.
Some figure drawing experience is …
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Figure Drawing by Ilse Leitjen
Instructor: Ellen Borison
In these sessions, we will draw from a nude or simply clothed model. The instructor will guide you fearlessly toward developing the observational, …
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Instructor: Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger
Have you always wanted to get your hands on some clay and make something but didn’t know where to start? Join us on Friday nights for an open clay studio with individual instruction, clay, glazes, firing and wine provided. This is …
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Instructor: Jamie McKay
Have fun making an assortment of your own beautiful glass beads on a bench mounted torch in the first class using Moretti glass. Students will …
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Instructor: Jacqui Beck
Join this inspiring, stimulating, hands-on class to experiment and experience many ways of expressing yourself in a safe and nurturing environment. Through this process, you will discover more meaning, purpose, enjoyment, and inspiration in your life.
Everyone is welcome, whether you are …
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Instructor: Theresa Neinas
In this workshop, you will get an overview of relief block printing that touches on composition, technique, and individual style as well as the basics of rolling and hand printing. Learn to use linoleum-cutting tools and barens safely to get the results …
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Instructor: Larry Calkins
Explore several forms of printmaking on cloth with techiniques like photo copy transfer, monotype, relief printing and draw through, and if weather permits even cyanotype photo printing.
The fabric blocks you create can later be sewn together in quilt form, as …
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