Adult Education Program

Come learn to create a unique patchwork design pendant using bronze metal clay. From simple designs to complex patterns, these pendants will engage your creative energy and delight your creative spirit.

Create your own sugar skull art to honor a loved one, come make art with lots of bright colors and great shapes. Meet new friends, enjoy some creativity, and celebrate Día De Los Muertos!

Students are invited to bring photos of interest. The workshop will provide many demos and ideas for a creative expression, rather than how to copy.

Discover the unique art of alcohol ink. The Inks are vibrant and brilliant. The inks run with complete abandon by tipping the tile or using your breath to move the alcohol. Come and explore these unseen horizons of creativity. Enjoy the dance of color and spirit, guided by intuition and the flow of alcohol inks on 6”x6” tile. This course is guided by Janet Blumenthal, who is known for breathing life into her alcohol ink paintings.

During this course you will learn how to draw an image for relief, how to transfer this image, how to cut the block and how to print it. Printing with a spoon is an easy way to produce a relief print at home with minimal cost.

"Can this painting be saved? I'm afraid I will ruin it if I try to fix it." we have all been there! Maybe you have a strong composition or strong color but the values are off. The values are accurate but oof-- that color!! Maybe it would look better cropped. The painting isn't working as is but you like the subject or parts of the painting. Bring your troubled work. Let's evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and see them with new eyes.

Rock/Paper/Scissors is a mixed-media workshop that combines monoprinting, collage, drawing, and improvisational composition into an energetic, process-driven studio experience. Using large prepared plates, graphite, water-based materials, and hand-burnished printing techniques, participants create richly layered monoprints that become the source material for larger abstract works. On the second day, the dried prints are torn, cut, layered, and collaged onto panels or canvas, allowing unexpected relationships and compositions to emerge. Additional drawing and surface work help unify the final pieces. Inspired by jazz, Japanese calligraphy, Robert Rauschenberg’s combines, and the idea that “all art aspires to the condition of music,” the workshop emphasizes experimentation, rhythm, intuition, and discovery over rigid planning. Designed for both representational and abstract artists, Rock/Paper/Scissors encourages participants to work at larger scale while developing new ways of thinking about process, structure, and improvisation.

Bring a bravado of brushwork and a confidence to your landscape painting. In the comfort of the studio, learn the skills to tackle plein air painting.

Learn to create beautiful garden-inspired pendants or earrings in bronze metal clay using the magical textures of Sonoran Desert plants. Students will choose leaves, flowers, or plant parts to make surface impressions in the clay, showcasing their creations within a cutout or freeform shape. Demonstration and instruction include how to work with, refine, fire, and finish metal clay creations. Instruction also includes how to make silicone molds of plant parts for repetitive use.

Tiger Blossom: A Practice in Listening is a five-day immersive workshop series inspired by the principles of Ikebana and mindfulness. Designed for participants of all experience levels, the series offers a gentle, accessible entry point into presence, self-refinement, and creative expression through botanical materials.

Create an expressive abstract artwork while exploring the fascinating connection between creativity and the brain. NeuroMagic is a unique drawing experience that combines art, mindfulness, and the science of neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to form new neural pathways throughout life. Using flowing lines, shapes, and color, participants are guided through a simple step-by-step process that encourages creativity, self-expression, and fresh perspectives. As the drawing develops, many participants find themselves entering a calm, focused state that quiets mental chatter and reduces stress. Because there are no mistakes and no artistic expectations, NeuroMagic is accessible to everyone, regardless of artistic experience. Participants will leave with a completed piece of artwork that is both visually striking and personally meaningful, along with a deeper appreciation for the connection between creativity, awareness, and possibility. No artistic experience is necessary. All materials are provided.

Discover how the gel plate can create atmospheric landscapes unlike those produced with any other medium. In this workshop, students with some gel printing experience will build on basic techniques to create layered, ethereal scenes filled with depth, texture, and luminous color. Through hands-on demonstrations and guided practice, participants will explore layering, color blending, composition, and mark-making to create the illusion of glowing skies, misty horizons, and distant landscapes. The gel plate's unique printing process encourages experimentation, allowing unexpected textures and "happy accidents" to become part of each composition. Students will complete several prints while gaining confidence in techniques they can continue to explore long after the workshop. Each participant will leave with a collection of one-of-a-kind landscape prints and fresh inspiration for their gel printing journey.

In this workshop, Roberta will demonstrate the use of collage rice paper and free flowing watercolors to encourage students to experiment with shapes, textures, and colors for outrageously creative florals.

The real work of painting is inward and not on a canvas, the real work is seeing your subject without judgements. Painting is an event and if its right on the inside it will be right on the canvas. Its a fact the better we see the better we'll paint. Learn from David Simons and acquire a painters eye!

A fun and casual 2 day workshop in oil or acrylic to help bring more life to your animal portraits and paintings. Bring some favorite photos and a willingness to explore using an edited brushstroke and curiosity to put down vibrant color! Some painting experience required.

This course will give each participant a good understanding of the process of bookmaking and a greater understanding of "How to" instructions online for more exploration of the world of handmade books. Each student will leave with a variety of completed books of their own design. You will love making the books and the skills and tools you take away from this class will inspire years of book making!

This Creative Caravan Rest Stop will have a multitude of events! Drop in anytime to create a handmade postcard using a collection of hand-carved printing blocks inspired by the surrounding landscape and community. This flexible, all-ages printmaking experience invites guests to slow down, make something meaningful, and send a little piece of their journey to someone they love. No experience is necessary—just curiosity and a willingness to create.

This Creative Caravan Rest Stop will have a multitude of events! Slow down, experiment, and discover the magic of making with light. Cyanotype Journeys invites participants to explore the cyanotype process through a series of creative investigations using botanicals, found objects, translucent materials, handmade stencils, and unexpected textures. Rather than focusing on a single finished piece, guests create multiple experimental prints, record discoveries in a Cyanotype Field Guide, and use their favorite explorations to create a final artwork that reflects their unique creative journey.

This Creative Caravan Rest Stop will have a multitude of events! Discover the joy of carving, printing, and sharing your own handmade postcards. In this welcoming introduction to block printing, participants transform simple ideas into small works of art that celebrate everyday moments, meaningful memories, and the places they love. Through guided instruction and playful experimentation, guests leave with a collection of original prints, new creative skills, and the confidence to continue making long after the workshop ends.

This Creative Caravan Rest Stop will have a multitude of events! Named after her ongoing block-printed postcard series, Postcards from the Road: Lessons from a Traveling Artist is an interactive artist talk exploring the intersection of creative practice and slow travel. Through photographs, artwork, journals, and stories from the road, artist Shannon Rose Moriarty shares how a year of travel shaped her creative practice and the courage to embrace the unknown.

In this workshop, we will combine the 500-year-old Korean paper layering technique of Joomchi with the ancient textile art of felting—transforming loose wool fibers into nonwoven fabric—to create a vessel and a small wall hanging!

Artists spend much of their time trying to mix the correct colors and values. Colors are rarely used straight "out of the tube". In this class, artists will learn how to manipulate colors, and their value, hue, and saturation, to achieve accurate, vibrant, and harmonious color in their paintings. We will explore color in light and shadow, color temperature, harmony, and color context. We will also learn techniques for creating stronger focal points and more three-dimensional work. Suitable for beginners through advanced painters. All media welcome.

This workshop series is designed to help artists break through hesitation and discover the power of bold painting. Through gestural brushwork, strong composition and unapologetic color, participants will learn to trust their instincts and find their visual voice in watercolor. Open to artists at all levels who want to level-up their technique and confidence. Beginners will discover essential watercolor basics; advanced painters will push into greater boldness and paint more like yourself.