All upcoming Studio Arts: Other Media classes

Just in time for the holidays, create a modern wreath design with fresh evergreens on a metal hoop. Using a method similar to floral arrangement, combine local textures, shapes, and colors in your design.

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.

Printmaking using a gel plate offers many options for combining materials, tools, and techniques to achieve an array of effects on both paper and fabric. Beginning with basic acrylic paints, explore the possibilities for layering with stamps, stencils, inks, and acrylic paint markers.

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.

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.

This class guides you through the process of creating a jeweled glass-and-bead mosaic mirror. Lectures cover historical perspectives, material review, and snapshots of contemporary decorative mosaic art.

Learn to create three different ring designs using wire-wrapping, forming, and texturing. Designs can be embellished with beads to create a unique look that suits the wearer’s style. Students have plenty of time to practice each ring design and leave the class with several finished pieces.

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.

Are you unsure of how to start your next jewelry project? This workshop helps build your confidence in your jewelry-making skills.

Learn the techniques needed to create fine mosaic jewelry as you make silver-plate mosaic pendants using mosaic gold, smalti, semiprecious stones, stained glass, millefiori, and more.