Art Camp for Grown Ups! Series 2025

Art Camp for Grown-ups! 

Thursday Evenings, 6:30-8:30pm in the studio

New projects each week. 

Why should kids have all the fun? This series is designed to get adults creating, regardless of experience or perceived creative ability; artists and complete novices alike will enjoy these sessions. Sign up for one, several, or the whole series as you see fit. Get messy, learn new techniques, and leave each session with finished art projects and the know how to make more at home. Sign up yourself, and make friends with other participants, register with friends and make a night of it, or even turn it into a date night! 

CAMP NIGHTS 2025: 

June 26 – Zentangle with Laura Jean Whitcomb

Start a practice of this relaxing artform in this class. Laura Jean will teach the basic elements of this design practice and get participants creating “tangles” of their own.  Each participant will receive a beginner kit to use in the class, and take home to continue.

July 3 – Water-based Screen Printing with Kris Cairelli

Get creative with traditional screen-printing techniques, made friendlier with non- toxic, easy to clean up, and water based materials. Bring copies of reference images if you have specific themes you'd like to incorporate. Print will be created on paper.  Students will leave with finished prints and a whole new technique in their artist tool box.

July 10 – Dot-painted Plant Pots with Kathy Hanson

Go Aboriginal Dot art style in this plant pot workshop.  This addictive technique will have you adding dots to everything!  Leave with a finished plant pot (provided) and a new art technique.

July 17 – Paper Orbs with Pam LaFountain

Learn to make a paper orb with simple supplies. Many choices of paper will be available or create your own design. Then head home with a pattern and make more on your own. Orbs can be used as Christmas ornaments, fill a bowl with orbs with a color theme for the holidays, design an orb mobile, or make one as a gift with a special message. You should be able to make two different orbs in our class so you can try different materials.

July 24 – Art Design Sweatshirts with Patti Warren

Bring your own sweatshirt, and leave with an artistically altered piece that is an art statement unique to you!  These techniques will be simple to do, but will be sure to garner compliments every time you wear it!

July 31 – Suminagashi Paper Marbling with Kris Cairelli

Discover the ancient art of Japanese paper marbling, where intricate designs are achieved by floating inks on the surface of water! Finished papers can be viewed as stand-alone art pieces, or can used for greeting cards, art book covers etc.

August 7 – Sumi Painting with Heidi Lorenz

This Japanese painting style was created by Zen monks.  In this Zen practice, reality is expressed by reducing it to its pure, bare form, creating stunning, simple paintings with painted black ink.  Leave the studio totally relaxed and focused, with finished paintings and a new artistic practice.

August 14 – Redwork Stitching with Pam LaFountain

Learn and practice the basic stitches of Redwork, a traditional form of hand stitching that mostly uses red thread, although other colors can also be used. Create a Redwork art piece in this studio class.  Projects work up fast and there are many free patterns available online, making this a really rewarding sewing style to continue past class.

August 28 – Zentangle with Laura Jean Whitcomb

Start a practice of this relaxing artform in this class.  Laura Jean will teach the basic elements of this design practice and get participants creating “tangles” of their own.  Each participant will receive a beginner kit to use in the class, and take home to continue.

September 4 – Step-by-Step Landscape Painting with Heidi Lorenz

With no painting experience necessary, beginner and intermediate painters can enjoy this step-by-step painting that will land participants with a finished painting they can leave the studio proud of.  Color mixing, painting techniques, and creative expression will all be explored in the creation of this landscape.