Workshop Series

Saturday, June 8, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Growing Gourmet Mushrooms at Home with Andy LeBlanc

The class will be presented in three parts:

1) What is a mushroom? A discussion about the life cycle and characteristics of edible mushrooms.

2) Inoculating hardwood logs (provided) to grow shiitake and oyster mushrooms at home, outdoors. Each participant will take two inoculated logs home to monitor the processes that logs go through to produce mushrooms and they will continue to produce for 2 or 3 years in a row if a suitable habitat is provided.

3) Discussion and demonstration of growing gourmet mushrooms at home, indoors.

Maximum of 8 participants. 

Monday, July 22, 1 - 4 p.m.
Plant Pounding Workshop with Hallie Bond

This workshop is back by popular demand! Hallie's class earlier in July was so popular, she is returning to the Arts Center on July 22 to offer it again. 

Open to children and adults. Channel your frustrations and stress into art! In this class we will learn the easy art of printing flowers and leaves direct from nature by pounding the plants with a hammer. You can pound on fabric to create a table runner, a hanging, or quilt squares.  You can pound on paper to create cards or prints for hanging. Or think up your own products! Bring a hammer if you can, freshly picked leaves or flowers if you wish, and your imagination.

Cost: $20 Arts Center Members; $30 Non-Members

Saturday, July 27, 1 - 4 p.m.
Matting & Framing with Al Pouch

Cost: $20 for Arts Center Members; $30 for Non-Members

This class is perfect for those interested in learning how to properly and creatively mat and frame your own artwork without spending a fortune. Indian Lake artist Al Pouch will teach you how to cut a mat, assemble, and finish a pre-made frame using archival material. Pouch, a photographer and graphic artist, has been framing his own art, as well as artwork for colleges, professional offices, retail establishments, and lodging accommodations, for more than 30 years.

Bring your own piece of flat artwork to be matted no larger than 12 x 16 inches. You will be provided with material to make a hinge mat, backing material, and hanging hardware for a frame. You may elect to bring your own frame to the class as well. To determine the appropriate size frame you will need, please use the following guidelines for per-made frames:  

Saturday, August 3, 12 - 4 p.m. 
Art*iculation: Writing Your Artist Statement with David Hazard

Creating your work is the (so-called) easy part. Writing your artist statement, for exhibitions and websites, is the challenge. Why are we creative people so in-articulate when it comes to telling about ourselves and our work? David Hazard has been coaching artists and authors for 40 years, helping them to create powerful statements about their work for marketing and promotional purposes. His clients have had exhibitions in galleries throughout the U.S. In this two-part session (we will have a break!), you will learn how to get to the core energies and motivations that drive you to work in the medium/s you do, and choose the subjects and treatments you choose. You'll also learn about your most likely audience - those most interested in your work - and how to understand their connection to you. The goal is to help you produce an artist statement that will link you to collectors who will not only like a given piece (and take it home), but to track with you a long time because they feel connected you. 

Cost: $30 Arts Center Members; $40 Non-Members