Imagine walking into an art supply store where every canvas, brush, and pigment beckon to you without any price tags. That's the essence of our open studio sessions at our art community hub. Every Thursday from 5 to 8 PM and Sundays from 1 to 4 PM, our members step into a space that mirrors the boundless aisles of an art supply haven, but with one key difference – everything is free. The tables are laden with top-notch equipment, and shelves are stocked with an array of donated materials, creating an atmosphere where artistic possibilities are as limitless as one's imagination.
In this creative sanctuary, members not only have access to a wealth of artistic resources but also to a spacious studio where they can spread out and immerse themselves in their projects. The open layout fosters a sense of community, turning the studio into a collaborative space where friendly fellow members work side by side, sharing ideas, techniques, and encouragement. It's a place where creative minds converge, turning each session into a vibrant tapestry of artistic expression.
To enhance the experience, complimentary tea flows freely, creating a warm and inviting ambiance. As members sip on their tea, they find themselves surrounded not only by the hum of creativity but also by a supportive network of like-minded individuals. The "smarts and parts" philosophy encourages the exchange of knowledge, making this space not just a studio but a dynamic community where artistic intelligence is shared, and the necessary materials are readily available for all members. Best of all, this enriching experience comes at no cost, emphasizing our commitment to making creativity accessible and fostering a space where art is truly for everyone.
Zen Meditation: Drop-In Group 2024
Wednesdays from 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Registration is not required. Please arrive a few minutes early to park and settle in.
The way of Zen is very simple: how one keeps one's mind, moment after moment after moment. It is not "tuning out" or creating a “blissed out” state. Instead Zen encourages us to "tune in" and realize the miracle of being alive right in this moment, whatever it holds.
Our weekly sessions are Zen practice stripped down to the basics. There is no chanting or ritual, just seated and walking meditation, followed by a short teaching sharing the wisdom of ancient and contemporary Zen Masters (including the Buddha himself).
All levels of experience, including none, are welcome, and instruction is enthusiastically offered to beginners. Meditation cushions and chairs are provided. (If you are new, please come a few minutes early so we can help you get set up).
COST:
Sessions are offered in accordance with the Buddha’s practice of dana (generosity). Donations of any amount are received with gratitude and help support the teaching and our practice space at ArtWaves.
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Laura Bonyon Neal is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, authorized Zen teacher, and Dharma heir of the late Most Venerable Wonji Dharma. Whether teaching, meditating, cooking, gardening, or drawing at ArtWaves, Laura holds Zen’s great question “What Is This?” at the forefront in order to keep her mind moment after moment after moment. And she really likes cats.
We meet every Sunday from 1pm-4pm during open studio. Participants can bring your current knitting, crochet, sewing, mending, handsewing, mending, embroidery, weaving, felting, needlepoint, cross stitch….. all things fiber and needle projects to work in conversation with each other. It’s a drop in group so you don’t have to register. Special guests will introduce new techniques and demo their needlework. Artwaves is also taking donations of materials, sewing machines, sergers, yarn, fabric, etc. Participants may bring unfinished projects or ideas for community projects such as donations of hats, mittens, blankets, shawls, etc.
This ongoing group maintains an email list for persons interested or who have attended. If you want to be on the email list, please send an email to office@artwavesmdi.org.
New to all this? Artwaves will provide supplies, beginning instruction, sewing machines and materials for you to try.
Free to members of Artwaves, non-members by donation
Parents with children between the ages of 3 and 5 (and younger siblings) will move together to music using free form and circle dance as well as yoga and qigong for expression. There is no right or wrong way to move. Let's have fun! Classes are led by Susan Sassaman.
Please register. Payment by donation $5 or as you wish.
Engage in the Art of Listening to nourish your nervous system, cultivate communication skills, and build your stamina to face life’s challenges. Join others to tap into both personal and collective creative wisdom. Expect to relax, create and play.
During each 2-hour session you will be invited to prepare for a deep relaxation where you can listen to the healing sound current of the gong. Then choose to keep resting while listening, or join in to chant a few sacred songs: the poetry of the Sikh gurus. Afterwards, a short reflective art practice that includes doodling and journaling will be offered as well as time for group sharing.
Song sheet (with translations) will be provided. Please dress in warm layers and bring your journal and favorite writing implements. You may also want to bring a water bottle.
Meet the Artist:
Lelania Harpal Kaur Avila (she/we/tributary) builds community through healing arts. A scholar of sacred poetic languages, she extends a gentle invitation to explore restoration through sound current experiences. As a multi-media artist, she balances rest and play with work and community engagement. She’s a licensed Inner Field Trip® Navigator, certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, and creator of two books of poetry, including An Abecedarian Reflection: Parenting Through Childhood Cancer. She playfully approaches challenges, utilizing the guidance of emotions to tune into inner wisdom. Learn more at paradisefound2020.org.
Thursday Figure Drawing
Every Thursday!
On Thursday, April 25 we will meet in the Farmhouse Studio
12:00pm -3:00pm
Where the model is the star, a series of 20 minute poses with no instruction, but plenty of easels, charcoal, basic supplies, tea, and friendly fellow artists.
18 and over, under 18 allowed with parental attendance!
$15 per week or Members can register with $25 per month at a significant discount!
Join us the second Thursday of the month in the courtyard for a Community Camp Fire.
This class is a braid of Yoga, Pilates, Barre and the art of not caring what you look like, but how you feel.
Move, sweat, breathe and enjoy.
First time or 1000 times, all are welcome and then we do the best we can.
Meet the instructor:
Britt’s passion for yoga, swimming, running and exploring the outdoors has been a blessing for her and all those with whom she shares a love of life. Experience, versatility, knowledge, dependability, and playfulness is what she brings to every adventure.
Meet the Artists
Dave and Lisa Roy have been stained glass artisans for over 20 years. For 10 years, they owned and operated a full service stained glass studio in Bucksport. Their work can be seen in hospitals, churches, and many private residences across the world. You can see more of their work at their website: https://www.stubborncowglass.com
Ocean themed stained glass mosaics for ages 8 and up.
Younger children need to be accompanied by an adult.
This will be a special workshop just for Star Wars Day! Cyanotype, also call sun-printing, is an early photographic process that produces blue and white prints. It is usually done in bright sunlight, but can also produce beautiful prints on cloudy days, and can be done indoors with a specialized UV light. You’ll have a chance to try both sunlight and artificial light.
There will be a lot of movement between indoor and outdoor workstations - if you have any mobility challenges please let us know so we can accommodate you.
While this workshop is an introduction to cyanotype, all levels of experience are welcome to come and experiment. All ages welcome, children under 14 must be with an adult.
Jennifer Booher’s cyanotype work plays with seasonal changes and the optical properties of light. She has been a Resident Artist with Acadia National Park since 2015, and Artist-in-Residence with the Mount Desert Island Historical Society since 2018. Ms. Booher is the recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the Puffin Foundation and the Kindling Fund.
Join us for a "Sew Down" brought to you by Which Stitch, A Circle of Needles.
Meet fellow sewers to make reusable produce bags that will be given to local farms, markets and food pantries. Unwanted clothing and fabric has a detrimental effect on the environment and this is an easy way to upcycle and make a difference. These bags will replace plastic produce bags that are difficult and costly to recycle.
Participants will leave with your own produce bag as well as leaving some bags to be shared. Our hope is to host future gatherings (including kids and youth classes) where learning basic sewing skills will be stressed. Making produce bags covers many beginning sewing skills.
Machines, sergers, patterns, notions and fabric will be available.
Please bring your own machine if you have one. Bring your own washed cotton or cotton blends from the "fabric stash" or use our washed donated fabrics.
We are looking forward to stitching together with a purpose.
This project is organized by Claire T Weinberg and Paige Collins. For additional details, Claire can be reached at dulseandrugosa@gmail.com and Paige at yellowfarmhouse@hotmail.com.
Botanicals and Beyond: Exploring Gelli Printing We supply it all *and the results are stunning!
Sunday May 12 from 10 to 12pm
$42 $32 for members)
About the Instructor: Liz is a founder (2013) of ArtWaves where she continues her practice through figure drawing, teaching, workshops, conversational critiques and working in her personal studio at the Bar Harbor Municipal building. Her artwork is expressed in a variety of media primarily oil painting, including glass, fiber and printmaking. She graduated with a B.A.in Painting from Swain School of Design including a year at Worcester Art Museum School and Boston Museum of Fine Arts and recently a Masters from Heartwood College of Art. Liz is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Fiber Arts Network and Maine Crafts Association.
$42 includes all materials and a Matt for farming
Our friends from NextStep will be joining us in the studio on Thursday, May 16th. We will be creating artwork that calls attention to the fact that Abuse can happen to anyone, from any walk of life. We will discuss the impact that abuse has on a person, their loved ones, and their community, as well as dispelling some common myths about how it happens and who it happens to. This is a great opportunity for folks to come together and create art in a safe environment, for a wonderful cause. NextStep will be hosting an Art Showcase this summer, and would love to display artwork created at this event. If you aren't able to make this event, but would like to contribute to our Art Showcase, please call our helpline at 1-800-315-5579
This course, suitable for all-levels, will invite students to learn about Naturalist Illustration, a discipline of capturing the artist’s perspective in their work, rather than strictly adhering to realism. Students will be encouraged to use their references with loose interpretation and add their own flare to their work.
We will examine important principles such as composition, light, movement, and texture in both our references and our pieces. Students will have access to a wide range of mediums, their end product will be a small-medium sized drawing, painting, or multimedia piece with some type of ocean-dwelling creature as its subject.
Students will also have access to photographs and books to use as reference material, including both examples of fish and other creatures to use as reference photos and examples of naturalist illustration work to reference.
Meet the Artist
Kailey Lewia is an ethnobotany and illustration student based in Otter Creek, Maine, and most interested in the connections between science, art, and wellness. Her work includes linocut, gouache paintings, and various multimedia works.
The wet felting process is colorful and fun for all ages.
This workshop has the added attraction of getting to slice it open with the oooohs and ahhs as the colorful core is exposed. Then you see the beautiful and surprising results of the geode inside! All materials including ArtWaves amazing array of colorful fleece and gear to wet felt sheeps wool. Step by step instructions and ideas of how to use these as well.
Special member price of $10 and the member benefit of coming on Sunday to make more as part of the OPEN STUDIO! This is a skill you continue at ArtWaves Open Studio where materials and tools are available FREE in the studio Sundays and Thursdays for members to connect, create and continue working with fibers.
Not-yet-members special $20. fee. Under 11 needs an adult partner.
About the instructor: Liz Cutler.com
Liz is a founder (2013) of ArtWaves, where she continues her practice through figure drawing, teaching, workshops, conversational critiques and working in her personal studio at the Bar Harbor Municipal building. Her artwork is expressed in a variety of media primarily oil painting, including glass, fiber and printmaking. She graduated with a B.A.in Painting from Swain School of Design including a year at Worcester Art Museum School and Boston Museum of Fine Arts and recently a Masters from Heartwood College of Art. Liz is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Fiber Arts Network and Maine Crafts Association. Liz is currently the Executive Director of ArtWaves and enjoys her studio time with students.
If you need to cancel your registration, please contact office@artwavesmdi.org. Your account will then reflect a credit that may be used toward future classes.
If you’ve got the basics down and want to push the materials further, here is the opportunity to try more complicated techniques like wet cyanotype, bleaching, and toning. Jennifer Booher will have a variety of papers and prints for you to experiment with.
Prepare to get messy!
Let's get familiar with ArtWaves lap looms! Explore the possibilities of designs, learn how to warp a loom with a heddle and use the shuttle. ArtWaves has acquired an incredibly colorful array of yarns so you can create a small tapestry or a simple monochromatic design for a coaster.
Teens/Adults welcome, younger kids get to have their adult partners in - plenty of space at ArtWaves! Use our materials or bring your own bits and bobs to embellish your piece.
This is a special $10 members price. Members can stay until 8pm for OPEN STUDIO time working on their looms and come in Sundays to continue weaving! Not-yet-members also benefit from the special pricing of $20 that covers everything you need to make a small weaving- coaster or small jewelery pouch.
Lizcutler.com is the instructor
Shoreline boulders, or cairns in Stained Glass! We have colorful piles of gorgeous glass, bins of beautiful china, and smooth stones for you to create with so you can bring home your own version of Acadia national park. Plus, you learn to cut, grind and perhaps grout a stained-glass mosaic! Use your photos as inspiration. It’s like coloring with stained glass, no experience necessary. We supply it all from Aprons to zinc white with step by step instructions in our spacious Kaleidoscope Studio. Perhaps there is something special you have picked up to include, you are welcome to personalize your piece as you wish, for your wall or window. Under 10 needs an adult partner.
instructor: Liz Cutler
Custom workshops available for groups.
1-4 PM June 1.
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There is something magical about a birch grove. Maybe the sense of light, the texture, or the distinctive black and white patterns that look so good in stained glass. Here is your chance to work with our glorious assortment of colors and textures. No experience necessary. All materials are included, with step-by-step instructions and a touch of merriment. Ages 8 and up; children under 10 need an adult partner.
Lap Loom Weaving
Gather and be surrounded by texture, color and possibilities as we get familiar with our lap looms. The process begins with considering designing, warping a loom, using a shuttle, and trying special techniques using our incredible array of yarns, ribbon and wool roving.
We will guide you through a few different weaving techniques and patterns to help you create a gorgeous piece of art! Bring your own yarn if you have some that you love or use our selection. All is included. $50 non members, members receive a $10 discount
No experience necessary, and fun for anyone over the age of 8.you can create a pictorial tapestry or a simple monochromatic design.
Basics of Monochromatic MonoPrinting
The possibilities of reductive gelatin monoprinting are astounding, and are very easy for non artists! Here is an hour to work on some scenes or abstractions just using black ink, fun tools to create come value patterns on a variety of papers. The step by step instructions makes this one of those wow workshops that some stray marks become the wow- actually best part of the print!
Take home your own unique printed cards, gift tags, a booklet, in addition to matting your favorite piece to frame. We supply it all, aprons, inks, brayers, and ooohhhs and ahhhs.
Our Special Member price is $10, which means after the 1 hour workshop, members can stay and continue until 8pm.
Not-yet-Members enjoy the special $20 Want to join? Easy Beans. $60 a Year- https://www.artwavesmdi.org/join-us Then stay and print away at Open Studio!
Liz is a founder of ArtWaves, where she continues her practice through figure drawing, teaching, workshops, conversational critiques and working in her personal studio at the Bar Harbor Municipal building. Her artwork is expressed in a variety of media primarily oil painting, including glass, fiber and printmaking. She graduated with a B.A.in Painting from Swain School of Design including a year at Worcester Art Museum School and Boston Museum of Fine Arts and recently a Masters from Heartwood College of Art. Liz is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Fiber Arts Network and Maine Crafts Association. You can reach Liz at Liz Cutler.com
If you already have a credit and would like to apply it to this class, please contact office@artwavesmdi.org before registering!
Explore nature through the eyes of an artist! This workshop will begin with an explorative hike to gather inspiration from nature. We’ll study explorer’s sketchbooks from history and emulate techniques for quick and powerful observational sketches. Students will learn approaches for incorporating watercolor into their drawings, and rendering natural specimens suchas moss and flowers. The workshop will end with an hour-long ‘plein air’ paintingexercise, where we’ll break down an often challenging task into bite-sized steps, andlearn tricks for sketching complex landscapes quickly by limiting your palette, grouping values, and identifying greater shapes. i
Meet the Artist: Claire Loon Baldwin
Claire Loon Baldwin is a Maine-based illustrator, designer, and storyteller inspired by the surreal beauty of nature. For years she worked as an environmental educator and park ranger, and in 2018 she created a centennial poster series for Grand Canyon National Park. Since then, her clients have included Down East Magazine, the Maine Audubon Society, and DK Publishing. She's a passionate hiker, and is writing and illustrating her first novel. See more at claireloonbaldwin.com.
Batik: Ancient Art, New Twist with Gloria Avner
Use your photographs or mine. Transfer reality to artistry with ink, wax and watercolor on delicate rice-paper. Learn ancient techniques, play with layering color and go home with two wonderful paintings. All materials and step by step instructions are provided at the spacious ArtWaves Studio in Town Hill.
Teens/Adults of all skill levels. The class is equally effective for beginners, professional artists and those taking the course multiple times.
$95 ($85 for members) 10-2
About the instructor: Gloria Avner has been creating and teaching art professionally for over twenty years. She is well known for specializing in painting BATIK Style. Both beginners and professional artists like to take her courses more than once. Ms. Avner has traveled the world and ran an art gallery in Town Hill for 35 years (Aquarius Artifacts). Her paintings are in Florida Galleries and collections across the country, and she is also well known for her Pet Portraits. See her work on Facebook, IG (@gloriavner), and Fineartamerica.com.
If you need to cancel your registration, please email office@artwavesmdi.org. Your account will then reflect a credit that may be used toward future classes.
Special member price with discount - just $10 , yet to be members is $20.
This is a skill you continue at ArtWaves Open Studio where materials and tools are available FREE in the studio for members to continue working with glass-( who would want to do this at home?)
Here's the membership details - after all we are a community arts center! https://artwavesmdi.org/join-us
Instructor Liz Cutler- ArtWaves founder and merriment coordinator
lizcutler.com
Needle felting is a simple needling technique like tattooing with small barbed needles to decorate a wool surface. Here’s where you ‘paint’ with a barbed needle using ArtWaves amazing array of dyed wool, silk fibers and other embellishments. Needle felting in our spacious studios can be a meditative experience - it’s like coloring with sheep's fleece. There will be plenty of designs to choose from that are perfect for people who just want to sample this technique or you can get more complex in your design by using your own photos and more tapping. Along the way, you get to gain skills, gain design experience and experiment with all the colors and textures in ArtWaves abundant stash. No skill or experience required for this wow workshop. All materials included to make a few coasters or a framable tapestry. $46 ($36 for members)
Under 10 welcome with a double digit partner.
About the instructor: Liz Cutler.com My paintings are inspired by a spark, something that wows me or quietly invites me to linger. I love capturing what transports me to being right there, to share and return to spectacular moments.
Liz is a founder (2013) of ArtWaves, where she continues her practice through figure drawing, teaching, workshops, conversational critiques and working in her personal studio at the Bar Harbor Municipal building. Liz is currently theVice president of the Board and throughly enjoys her studio time with students.
Stained Glass Mosaics - Magnets, Mirrors & and More
If you are a beginner this is the workshop for you!, learn to Cut and Color with Stained glass~ Let your light shine- learn to design, cut glass and Make and take home some unique mosaic pieces. We include it all Anyone over 5 can work with our heaps of colored glass to create shimmery light filled gifts, ornaments.
Cyanotype, also called sun-printing, is an early photographic process that produces blue and white prints. It is usually done in bright sunlight, but can also produce beautiful prints on cloudy days, and can be done indoors with a specialized UV light. You’ll have a chance to try both sunlight and artificial light.
We will use seasonal plants including meadow flowers, ferns, feathers, crystal dishes, lace, and 19th century illustrations to make spring and summer landscape notecards.
There will be a lot of movement between indoor and out door workstations - if you have any mobility challenges please let us know so we can accommodate you.
While this workshop is an introduction to cyanotype, all levels of experience are welcome to come and experiment.
Needle felting is a simple needling technique like tattooing with small barbed needles to decorate a wool surface.
Here’s where you ‘paint’ with a barbed needle using ArtWaves amazing array of dyed wool, silk fibers and other embellishments. Needle felting in our spacious studios can bea meditative experience - it’s like coloring with sheep's fleece.
This 1 hour workshop is perfect for people who just want to sample this technique No skill or experience required for this wow workshop. All materials included to make 1 or 2 magnets, with a touch of merriment..
Special member price of $10 and the member benefit of staying till 8 to make more as part of the OPEN STUDIO!
Not yet members get a discounted $20. fee. Under 11 needs an adult partner present. Special member price with discount - just $10 ,
yet-to-be-members are $20.
This is a skill you continue at ArtWaves Open Studio where materials and tools are available FREE in the studio for members to continue working with fleece.
Liz is a founder (2013) of ArtWaves, where she continues her practice through figure drawing, teaching, workshops, conversational critiques and working in her personal studio at the Bar Harbor Municipal building. Liz is currently the Vice president of the Board and throughly enjoys her studio time with students.
The Summer Intensive is designed for high-school and college-aged dancers looking to expand their training, explore their artistry, and gain experience in a professional-level dance setting. Faculty are experts in the field who have carefully crafted curricula to help young dancers grow technically, artistically, and professionally.
Participants take daily classes (ballet, hip hop, contemporary) with professional dance artists from Nimbus Dance and a rotation of special topics such as injury prevention, audition skills, and improvisation. Students learn a piece of original choreography with company dancers from Nimbus Dance and perform on Friday, July 26th at the 1932 Criterion Theater as part of the Acadia Dance Festival.
Click here to register!
Sample Intensive Schedule
9 am - 10:25 - Technique Class #1
10:30 - 11:15 - Technique Class #2
11:15 - 12 pm - Lunch
12 - 2 pm - Rehearsal and Repertory
Technique Classes Include Ballet, Modern, Improvisation, Jazz, Conditioning, and Contemporary
Save the Date! Our friends from Acadia Dance Festival and Nimbus Dance will host an open rehearsal and reception.
Guided from start to finish students will learn the advantages of this intense and versatile painting medium. The class will be instructed on the fundamentals of
Learn the basics of needle-felting and re-create a masterpiece using your own images of Acadia or one of the iconic ones. It's like coloring with wool . ArtWaves has an amazing array of dyed fleece, embellish with spun wool and frayed silk saris. Not only will you leave with a wonderful felted piece but you leave saying "I felt great" -
45 non member 35- members. Perfect for a custom group workshop at a time convenient for you contact office@artwavesmdi.org
Mosaic Mirror Workshop
It’s like coloring with stained glass!
Making a stained-glass mosaic mirror is an opportunity to create with a unique hands-on medium. Participants will learn how to cut, grind, glue, and grout if desired using ArtWaves extensive supply of glass, tiles, natural materials, and pottery to create whatever mosaic pattern or image they like surrounding a round or rectangular mirror.
Friday August 2 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm
$50 ($40 for members)
Teens and Adults of all skill levels, younger needs a double digit partner
Liz gives step-by-step instructions, demonstrations, suggestions and guides you to complete your mosaic mirror ready to hang. No prior experience necessary and ArtWaves provides it all.
Liz is a founder (2013) of ArtWaves, where she continues her practice through figure drawing, teaching, workshops, conversational critiques and working in her personal studio at the Bar Harbor Municipal building. Her artwork is expressed in a variety of media primarily oil painting, including glass, fiber and printmaking. She graduated with a B.A.in Painting from Swain School of Design including a year at Worcester Art Museum School and Boston Museum of Fine Arts and recently a Masters from Heartwood College of Art. Liz is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Fiber Arts Network and Maine Crafts Association. Liz is the founder of ArtWaves and enjoys her studio time with students.
Gel plate printing is a fun, immediate, accessible printmaking process that does not need a press. In this workshop we’ll explore using found objects, plants, stencils and layering to make colorful, playful, surprisingly detailed prints. After a brief break for drying, we’ll use our prints to make accordion cards with simple pop-up structures.
Anna Low is a Maine-based bookbinder and book artist and the one-woman creator behind Purplebean Bindery. www.PurplebeanBindery.com
Learn a decorative, accessible and infinitely varied book binding stitch, the long stitch, and make a rustic leather sketchbook. The long stitch a great binding technique to learn and master both for beginning bookbinders and experienced book artists. It can be used to bind books with paper, felted wool, cloth or just about any durable material. In this class we will focus on constructing a blank book from folding pages to punching the leather cover and binding. Students will leave class with their own bound book in addition to instructions and tools to continue making books at home.
Join Christine Lafuente, our August Guest Artist- August 12-15
Experience the magic of Mount Desert Island as you paint En Plein Air. A basic review of outdoor set-up, palette organization, composition, and atmospheric color theory will be covered; however, most of the time spent together will be “hands-on” in the field with individual instruction at four select locations on the Island’s beautiful coves and shores. The half-day sessions provide you the opportunity to work in the mornings with the instructor, leaving you the afternoons to continue to work independently and process the day’s lesson.
Pack a lunch and paint all day!
Misty Cove and Tiger Lilies 11x14 oil on linen
View Christine's Website
Celestial Felting
2:30-4:30 Friday September 6
Here’s where you ‘paint’ with a barbed needle using ArtWaves amazing array of dyed wool, silk fibers and other embellishments. Needle felting in our spacious studios can be a meditative experience - it’s like coloring with sheep's fleece. Under 9 needs a double digit partner.
Complete a piece ready to hang and the knowledge to continue needle felting as it is oh so satisfying to work with all the colors. We provide all materials with step by step instructions. Custom needle felting workshops available for groups as well!
Back by popular demand-
Batik: Ancient Art, New Twist --
Use your photographs or Gloria's. Transfer reality to artistry with ink, wax and watercolor on delicate rice-paper. Learn ancient techniques, play with layering color and go home with two wonderful paintings.
For those who have taken her workshop before, here is the opportunity to bring pieces from previous classes to to the studio to deepen, improve or add to it.
All materials and step by step instructions are provided.
If you want a custom group batik workshop at a time convenient to you, contact office@artwavesmdi.org
So much fun!