Make It Yourself
Our popular weekly, FREE multigenerational Community Art Classes are back for 2022!
Saturdays, 12-2pm
June 4th through August 27th
New multi-media activities are offered each week and taught by professional artists and educators from our Artist in Residence program.
This is a drop-in class...just show up. All ages and all abilities are welcome.
Classes are held outside in our beautiful Garden. Bring the family and a picnic!
Check out the lineup of artists leading each week's activities!
June 4, 2022
Organic Stamps/Prints with Nassem Navab
Join us for organic stamp and pattern printmaking! Use citrus, onions, and even walnuts as well as potatoes to create your own shapes and designs. Come and play with different textures from the garden to create artistic prints on paper.
Organic Stamps/Prints with Nassem Navab
Join us for organic stamp and pattern printmaking! Use citrus, onions, and even walnuts as well as potatoes to create your own shapes and designs. Come and play with different textures from the garden to create artistic prints on paper.
June 11, 2022
Natural Dyes with Sofia Gonzalez
Bring cotton, linen or silk, and old t-shirts or new, to be dyed with indigo and plants collected in the Art Produce Garden. Fold and bind your fabric using provided materials to create patterns.
Natural Dyes with Sofia Gonzalez
Bring cotton, linen or silk, and old t-shirts or new, to be dyed with indigo and plants collected in the Art Produce Garden. Fold and bind your fabric using provided materials to create patterns.
June 18, 2022
Marble Paper Activity with Nassem Navab
Create unique marble paper with food coloring and shaving cream. With step-by-step instructions, we will play with color and shape to create one-of-a-kind prints!
Marble Paper Activity with Nassem Navab
Create unique marble paper with food coloring and shaving cream. With step-by-step instructions, we will play with color and shape to create one-of-a-kind prints!
June 25, 2022
Twine Ball Sculptures with Nassem Navab
Create hanging twine sculptures! We will be dipping twine in a ready-made paste and wrapping balloons. Gather organic foliage from the garden to weave between your sculptures.
Twine Ball Sculptures with Nassem Navab
Create hanging twine sculptures! We will be dipping twine in a ready-made paste and wrapping balloons. Gather organic foliage from the garden to weave between your sculptures.
July 2, 2022
Garden Creatures with Brian and Ryan
Make your own Garden Creature using sticks, stones, and pinecones. Add eyes, teeth, arms, legs, hair, and whatever else you can think up to decorate your new garden friend.
Garden Creatures with Brian and Ryan
Make your own Garden Creature using sticks, stones, and pinecones. Add eyes, teeth, arms, legs, hair, and whatever else you can think up to decorate your new garden friend.
July 9, 2022
Suminagashi with Sage Serrano
Suminagashi is the Japanese art of marbling paper, the name translates to “floating ink.” This method of marbling was developed in the early 12th century in Japan. By using two brushes, one with ink and one with dispersant, you take turns dipping each brush onto the surface of the water to begin creating your unique marbling design. Once your design has been created you will lay down a piece of paper to create a contact print. All ages are welcome!
Suminagashi with Sage Serrano
Suminagashi is the Japanese art of marbling paper, the name translates to “floating ink.” This method of marbling was developed in the early 12th century in Japan. By using two brushes, one with ink and one with dispersant, you take turns dipping each brush onto the surface of the water to begin creating your unique marbling design. Once your design has been created you will lay down a piece of paper to create a contact print. All ages are welcome!
July 16, 2022
Handmade Dipping Dishes and Ice Cream Bowls with Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Pinch bowls from clay, decorated with textures.
Your bowl will be fired, glazed, and ready to be picked up on August 13th.
Handmade Dipping Dishes and Ice Cream Bowls with Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Pinch bowls from clay, decorated with textures.
Your bowl will be fired, glazed, and ready to be picked up on August 13th.
July 23, 2022
Japanese Bookbinding & Watercolors with Sage Serrano
Come join us and make your own handmade book! We will be learning the traditional Japanese four-hole stab bookbinding technique. Have fun painting and decorating the covers of your book with watercolors.
Japanese Bookbinding & Watercolors with Sage Serrano
Come join us and make your own handmade book! We will be learning the traditional Japanese four-hole stab bookbinding technique. Have fun painting and decorating the covers of your book with watercolors.
July 30, 2022
Kinetic Wire and Mesh Mobile with Jennifer Vargas
Create moving, shifting art that hangs and moves to explore color and light! We will be using wire to make mobiles and adding mesh and other materials to cause movement and balance.
Kinetic Wire and Mesh Mobile with Jennifer Vargas
Create moving, shifting art that hangs and moves to explore color and light! We will be using wire to make mobiles and adding mesh and other materials to cause movement and balance.
August 6, 2022
Working with Paint with Avia Ramm
In this class, folks of any skill level will be encouraged to work with paint in familiar and unfamiliar ways. This class is an excuse to play with color and ideas, and a safe space to make mistakes and get messy. Participants will be given the opportunity to paint on a variety of colors, textures, surfaces and objects while being provided feedback on how to best execute their ideas.
Art is about creating, but also about community. Humans are creations, as well as art! A creation creating a creation to give to another creation, how sweet! Folks will be encouraged to give their pieces as a gift to someone, a hand made tangible form of love.
Working with Paint with Avia Ramm
In this class, folks of any skill level will be encouraged to work with paint in familiar and unfamiliar ways. This class is an excuse to play with color and ideas, and a safe space to make mistakes and get messy. Participants will be given the opportunity to paint on a variety of colors, textures, surfaces and objects while being provided feedback on how to best execute their ideas.
Art is about creating, but also about community. Humans are creations, as well as art! A creation creating a creation to give to another creation, how sweet! Folks will be encouraged to give their pieces as a gift to someone, a hand made tangible form of love.
August 13, 2022
Wind Chimes with Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Your clay wind chimes will be fired (no glaze) and ready to be picked up on August 20th with some fishing line to complete the project on August 20th if you wish.
Wind Chimes with Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Your clay wind chimes will be fired (no glaze) and ready to be picked up on August 20th with some fishing line to complete the project on August 20th if you wish.
August 20, 2022
Finger Puppets with Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Finger Puppets with Terri Hughes-Oelrich
August 27, 2022
Zine Time with Brian and Ryan
Make your own personalized 8-page folded zine. Turn it into a comic, story, poem, directions to make the world’s greatest peanut butter sandwich, or whatever else you can think of.
Zine Time with Brian and Ryan
Make your own personalized 8-page folded zine. Turn it into a comic, story, poem, directions to make the world’s greatest peanut butter sandwich, or whatever else you can think of.
