Make It Yourself
Our popular weekly, free multigenerational Community Art Classes are back!
Saturdays, 12-2pm
June 5th through August 28th
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 our lineup of artists leading each week's activities:
June 5, 2021
Brian Black & Ryan Bulis
Puppets for Home, Work & Recreation
Artist duo Brian & Ryan will be running an all-ages puppet making workshop. Learn to make your own simple puppet from household supplies ranging from clothespins to old (but clean) socks. Join them as you create your own puppet companion to use in all kinds of professional, social and domestic situations.
Brian Black & Ryan Bulis
Puppets for Home, Work & Recreation
Artist duo Brian & Ryan will be running an all-ages puppet making workshop. Learn to make your own simple puppet from household supplies ranging from clothespins to old (but clean) socks. Join them as you create your own puppet companion to use in all kinds of professional, social and domestic situations.
June 12, 2021
Kaori Fukuyama
Playful Printmaking on the Patio
Explore simple monoprint techniques using acrylic paint, plants from the garden, photographs, and your imagination! With step by step instructions, we will layer color, pattern, and image to create one-of-a-kind prints!
Kaori Fukuyama
Playful Printmaking on the Patio
Explore simple monoprint techniques using acrylic paint, plants from the garden, photographs, and your imagination! With step by step instructions, we will layer color, pattern, and image to create one-of-a-kind prints!
June 19, 2021
Dakota Noot
Draw it, cut it, wear it: Making paper costumes and cutouts
In this class, Dakota Noot will demonstrate creating wearable art and freestanding cutouts through drawing. With crayons, markers, and pencils, you too can transform yourself and your environment. Noot will cover drawing animals, imaginary creatures, and other people and objects. Whether decorating your room or making a costume, paper drawings are resourceful and imaginative.
Dakota Noot
Draw it, cut it, wear it: Making paper costumes and cutouts
In this class, Dakota Noot will demonstrate creating wearable art and freestanding cutouts through drawing. With crayons, markers, and pencils, you too can transform yourself and your environment. Noot will cover drawing animals, imaginary creatures, and other people and objects. Whether decorating your room or making a costume, paper drawings are resourceful and imaginative.
June 26, 2021
Kim Sweeney
Paint the Garden! Botanical Painting on Paper & Fabric
Inspired by plants from our garden, create watercolor paintings, crayon resist drawings and patterns on fabric. Or create your own self portrait in the garden!
Kim Sweeney
Paint the Garden! Botanical Painting on Paper & Fabric
Inspired by plants from our garden, create watercolor paintings, crayon resist drawings and patterns on fabric. Or create your own self portrait in the garden!
July 3, 2021
Jamie Franks
Collage & Frottage
Explore Art Produce and the garden through texture! Frottage is a fun and tactile method of mark making. Using tracing paper and soft pastel, we will collect rubbings of various surfaces and textures from around Art Produce as the basis of a collage.
Jamie Franks
Collage & Frottage
Explore Art Produce and the garden through texture! Frottage is a fun and tactile method of mark making. Using tracing paper and soft pastel, we will collect rubbings of various surfaces and textures from around Art Produce as the basis of a collage.
July 10, 2021
Nassem Navab
Zines, Stickers & Buttons
Learn how to make zines out of sheets of paper and see some inspiring zine examples. No experience necessary! We will provide all the materials you will need, but if you have an image you want to use to make a button or collage, feel free to bring it!
Nassem Navab
Zines, Stickers & Buttons
Learn how to make zines out of sheets of paper and see some inspiring zine examples. No experience necessary! We will provide all the materials you will need, but if you have an image you want to use to make a button or collage, feel free to bring it!
July 17, 2021
Sofia V. Gonzalez
Harvesting Colors of the Garden
Explore the potential of natural color! Create natural dyes and watercolors with easily foraged plants and kitchen waste. Bring a piece of clothing to dye with colors from the garden, take away dyed fabric samples and create a drawing in reaction to the sounds of the garden.
Sofia V. Gonzalez
Harvesting Colors of the Garden
Explore the potential of natural color! Create natural dyes and watercolors with easily foraged plants and kitchen waste. Bring a piece of clothing to dye with colors from the garden, take away dyed fabric samples and create a drawing in reaction to the sounds of the garden.
July 24, 2021
Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Play with Clay
Make an animal pot for small succulents using coil, pinch or hollowed out techniques. Clay and tools will be provided. They will be kiln fired to pick up mid-August to take home.
Terri Hughes-Oelrich
Play with Clay
Make an animal pot for small succulents using coil, pinch or hollowed out techniques. Clay and tools will be provided. They will be kiln fired to pick up mid-August to take home.
July 31, 2021
Sage Serrano
Bookbinding
Learn how to make a book by sewing folded paper together using a simple pamphlet stitch. Play with different colored papers and decorate the cover of your book. No sewing experience necessary!
Sage Serrano
Bookbinding
Learn how to make a book by sewing folded paper together using a simple pamphlet stitch. Play with different colored papers and decorate the cover of your book. No sewing experience necessary!
August 7, 2021
Avia Rose Ramm
3-D Collage
Explore 3-dimensional collage using boxes, wooden blocks, fancy paper, magazine images, personal photographs, text, embellishments, and whatever else strikes your fancy. We’ll learn simple techniques for turning 2-D images into 3-D art. Bring a small box and any personal photographs you’d like to incorporate.
Avia Rose Ramm
3-D Collage
Explore 3-dimensional collage using boxes, wooden blocks, fancy paper, magazine images, personal photographs, text, embellishments, and whatever else strikes your fancy. We’ll learn simple techniques for turning 2-D images into 3-D art. Bring a small box and any personal photographs you’d like to incorporate.
August 14, 2021
Jennifer Vargas
Wire Sculpture
Come and create wire sculptures using malleable materials that are easy to use for all ages. Take them home or add them to the community sculpture that will be displayed during the rest of the month of August in the garden!
Jennifer Vargas
Wire Sculpture
Come and create wire sculptures using malleable materials that are easy to use for all ages. Take them home or add them to the community sculpture that will be displayed during the rest of the month of August in the garden!
August 21, 2021
Avia Rose Ramm
Affirmations and Animals of Comfort
Make your own affirmations posters to give you a friendly, positive reminder each day, as told by an animal of comfort. No art experience needed - just a willingness to play and explore. You can also contribute to an emotions/ affirmations quilt that will be made on felt squares and sewn together by the teaching artist.
Avia Rose Ramm
Affirmations and Animals of Comfort
Make your own affirmations posters to give you a friendly, positive reminder each day, as told by an animal of comfort. No art experience needed - just a willingness to play and explore. You can also contribute to an emotions/ affirmations quilt that will be made on felt squares and sewn together by the teaching artist.
