All upcoming Studio Arts: Other Media classes

Learn the science and magic of how bright magenta pokeweed, dark black walnut, vibrant orange cosmos, and even urban detritus can become ingredients for your palette in the form of beautiful inks. Before the workshop, you receive a guide from workshop leader Jason Logan to take along as you go on a foraging walk to search for ink materials. Then get hands-on in the studio to transform what you gathered into rich, colorful inks, creating place-based art materials that celebrate the stories of where they were found.

Art, craft, science, ecology, and magic combine in this hands-on inky workshop with Jason Logan, founder of the Toronto Ink Company and author of How To Be a Color Wizard: Forage and Experiment with Natural Art Making. A few simple ingredients and permission to play offer color wizards ages 8 to 12 and their adult assistants a new window into the prismatic world around us. Young wizards, who must be accompanied by an adult, learn what paint and ink are made of and how to create a rainbow of colors and textures from beets.

Explore the meeting of traditional and nontraditional mosaic materials while learning design and composition theories. Working with a theme of the face, combine mosaic and assemblage.

Explore the spectrum of floral design. Sourcing (with a focus on sustainability), making the most of seasonal flowers, creating centerpieces, wiring techniques, and photographing your work are all among the practical areas covered.

In this class, learn to create handcrafted jewelry. This experience is perfect for students new to jewelry making and those with experience who want to refresh their skills.

The beautiful decorations of religious and secular manuscripts are centuries-old Islamic traditions. Learn the elements of gold-leaf manuscript illumination in the Afghan tradition.

Explore the Japanese art of takuga, the intersection between printmaking and watercolor. Use sumi or block printing ink to handprint leaves, flowers, or vegetables. You leave this workshop with many colorful prints in the takuga style, ready for framing or sending as a greeting card.

Learn to create three different chain designs for a pendant or to wear alone as a unique piece of jewelry.

White-line woodcuts are multicolor images printed from a single block of wood. Learn to create your own by cutting a nature print or simple line drawing into a wood block, creating the “white lines” when printed.

Knowing how to put together elements of wirework and strung bead jewelry is crucial to creative success. However, all the techniques in your toolbox become useless if you get stuck during the design process. Learn important design principles for jewelry makers such as use of color, creating visual texture and balance, and managing proportion.