Artworks periodically offers a wide variety of Classes, Workshops, Lectures and Demonstrations such as knitting, weaving, quilting, rug hooking, gilding, creative writing, woodworking, art history, drawing, calligraphy, furniture painting, framing and print-making.
Registration deadline for classes is one week prior to the first class meeting. Please sign up early to avoid disappointment. Registration without full and correct payment is not guaranteed. You may register in person from 12-3 pm Wed-Fri, by mail, or by phone 410-778-6300. We now accept VISA and Mastercard.
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Registration is now open for:
BOOKBINDING W/ MARILEE SCHUMANN AND JAMIE HURLEY
Tuesday-Thursday, May 13-15 1pm-5pm 4-8 students
This three-day workshop will cover basic bookbinding techniques. Students will finish several simple projects and discuss how the techniques that are covered can be used for individually designed books.
Class fee members $110 nonmembers $120
plus $30 materials fee to be paid to instructor
Schumann and Hurley are self-taught book craftspeople. After learning some basics in a workshop taught by Annette Hollander, they continued to make books, handmade paper and marbled paper. They collaborated on the popular show "The Look of the Book", a show and installation at the Kent County Arts Council. Jamie's books and Marilee's pottery and sculpture can sometimes be found at the Museum of Liminalist Art in Chestertown, MD.
MOSAICS - THE ULTIMATE ART OF RECYCLING W/ SUE STOCKMAN
Saturday/Sunday, April 26 (10am-2pm) and April 27 (10am-noon)
Learn the fundamentals of mosaics and create a project using broken shards, stones, glass, and other "cast aways" This is a great way to recycle and learn a technique that can be applied to so many different applications. At the end of this class you will have an understanding of adhesives and grouts and leave with a completed piece suitable for indoor or outdoor display.
Class fee members $90 nonmembers $100
Plus $20 materials fee to be paid to instructor
PRINTING WITH COLORED CLAYS W/ MITCH LYONS
Tuesday/Wednesday, June 10-11 10 am - 4 pm
Students will learn to make monoprints using colored clays and slips painted onto a slab of wet clay. No ink is used. Many clay monoprints can be pulled from a single slab of clay. Demonstrations, slides, and examples of work will be provided.
Class fee: members $150 nonmembers $160
Plus $20 materials fee to be paid to instructor
BROOM STICK - USING COLORED CLAYS W/ MITCH LYONS
Thursday/Friday, June 12-13 10am-4pm
Students will learn to make seamless forms using the "broom-stick method" that Mitch developed. He will instroduce colored clays and colored slips as the form takes shape. Lots of demonstrations and slides. Get ready to use clay in a very unique way.
Class fee: members $150 non-members $160
Plus $10 materials fee to be paid to instructor
FLOWER HOUR: PLAN AHEAD FOR THE FALL W/ RACHEL SHINFELD
Wednesday, October 15 5:30-6:30
Students will learn how to go out into local nature, gather and harvest materials, and make beautiful flower arrangements! Using leaves, branches, berries, and fall flowers from you garden or nearby forest, you can create a wonderful autumn arrangement that brings nature right into your home. Give it a try and make create an arrangement in class.
Class fee members $25 nonmembers $35
plus materials fee of $55 for all materials to be paid to instructor
If you are interested in teaching a class or workshop or presenting a
lecture at Artworks, call us or submit an Instructors Class Form.
