Workshops / Sessions
Experimental Exploration
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
Discover new ways to create and conceptualize. In this class we will explore materials and mark making, experimenting with unconventional tools. Searching for how to maintain our gestural hand in various mediums and scale, we ask the question who or what is leading the exploration? Is the medium, the concept or our own intuitive voice leading the way?
Tue. March 4, 2025 - April 8, 2025 | 9:30am- 12:00pm Register here
Tue. April 29, 2025 - June 3, 2025 | 9:30am- 12:00pm Register here
An Illustrated Life: Art Journaling
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
Explore art journaling and the personal narrative with the freedom and flow to tell your story. We will create a bound book for mixed media tests and samples to understand your materials, learning the basics in color theory. In a larger journal we will discover our individual uniqueness with prompted exercises, writing, painting, and collaging.
Tue. March 4, 2025 - April 8, 2025 | 1:00pm- 3:00pm Register here
Drawing 101: Learn the Basics
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
This class is perfect for people with no experience drawing, or those who would like a refresher. Students will become familiar with foundational skills and concepts to get started drawing. They will gain knowledge of the principles of art and with that, the confidence to enjoy drawing on their own!.
Wed. March 5, 2025 - April 9, 2025 | 1:00pm- 3:00pm Register here
Wed. April 30, 2025 - June 4, 2025 | 10:00am- 12:00pm Register here
Creative Threads: Fiber Art Journaling
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
The meditative practice of stitchery is about honoring the imperfect, the handmade, and feeding your love of fiber. Stitchery, like any art, is about mark making, color study and creative expression. We explore line and shape; shading and texture; inviting you to play, experiment and invent through prompted exercises.
Wed. March 5, 2025 - April 9, 2025 | 1:00pm- 3:00pm Register here
Wed. April 30, 2025 - June 4, 2025 | 1:00pm- 3:00pm Register here
Discovering the Self: Exploration in Self-Portraiture
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
6 Week Sessions | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
Discover and delight in the exploration of who you are. The self-portrait represents the whole artist, not only who you see, but what you feel. Through observation and prompted exercises, we will explore ways to examine our features using a mix of materials and techniques, from contour drawing, sumi ink painting, watercolor washes and more.
Thur. March 6, 2025 - April 10, 2025 | 10:00am- 12:00pm Register here
Thur. May 1, 2025 - June 5, 2025 | 10:00am- 12:00pm Register here
An Introduction to Encaustics: Working with Hot Wax
1-2 Day Workshop | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
1-2 Day Workshop | Artistree Community Art Center, South Pomfret, VT
Explore the art of hot wax. Receive hands-on introduction in the encaustic process with a focus on safe studio practices. Demonstrations will be provided for basic techniques in painting, collage and relief. We will create surfaces both smooth and textured using a variety of tools.
Summer 2025