Studio Arts: Mixed Media Classes

Explore the materials, tools, and techniques used in collage and assemblage as you create an artwork that’s uniquely yours. The 2-day workshop, ideal for both nonartists and those with experience, is a great way to spark your creativity in two forms that offer wide possibilities for inventive expression.

Capture the essence of your favorite animal or pet in a one-of-a-kind acrylic portrait filled with color, personality, and affection.

Learn to spotlight personal mementos, objects, photos, and other materials in a unique three-dimensional form that can stand alone or be wall mounted.

Use colorful Akua water-based printmaking ink to create evocative spring-themed prints on fabric.

Discover a variety of methods for making and using image transfers and expanding your creative horizons with photo alteration. Both techniques can offer new dimensions and interest to your artworks.

Spend a day discovering the creative possibilities of the centuries-old encaustic method, which offers rich and luminous color and great compatibility with collage materials.

Love mixed media? This workshop offers the perfect way to expand your repertoire by creating an array of one-off prints using acrylic paints and other materials.

Learn a fun and fast way to create Easter eggs to decorate your home for spring. Paper dots, small pins, and an overlapping paper-piecing technique are the elements behind these delightful one-of-a-kind eggs.

Learn a fun and fast way to create Easter eggs to decorate your home for spring. Paper dots, small pins, and an overlapping paper-piecing technique are the elements behind these delightful one-of-a-kind eggs.

Create your own story as you learn to upcycle book pages as surfaces for drawing, painting, and collage using gelatin plate prints, textures, photo transfers, drawing, painting, and text redaction.

Students are introduced to the materials, tools, and technologies used in collage and assemblage. They find inspiration in artists who worked in collage including Joseph Cornell, Romare Bearden, and Gertrude Green.

Explore the basis of abstraction by studying color, line, and shape as they relate to composition. Learn to create exciting and innovative works of art, using a series of drawing and painting exercises designed to examine non-traditional ways of handling traditional materials and subject matter.

Explore the materials, tools, and techniques used in collage and assemblage as you create an artwork that’s uniquely yours. The workshop, ideal for both nonartists and those with experience, is a great way to spark your creativity in two forms that offer wide possibilities for inventive expression.

It takes a village! In a 2-day workshop, students construct their own tiny houses, which they personalize working in paper-mache, acrylics, and mixed-media.

This spring, bring to life a tulip bouquet that requires no water, won’t be eaten by deer, and will last months or even years. Learn the skills and techniques to create realistic crepe-paper flowers petal by petal.

Discover the creative possibilities of the centuries-old encaustic method, which offers rich and luminous color and great compatibility with collage materials.

Using direct printing and water-based printing inks, create realistic looking schools of fish or a single artistic print simply by inking a whole fish and pressing it to paper.

Transform contour drawings of leaf shapes into transparent watercolor paintings. Then, use a walking press to make leaf prints on a variety of papers using water-based ink.

Using direct printing and water-based printing inks, create realistic looking schools of fish or a single artistic print simply by inking a whole fish and pressing it to paper.

Use colorful Akua water-based printmaking ink to create evocative spring-themed prints on fabric.