Upcoming Workshops:
Floral Pumpkins
October 3rd, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Verona Maker Space
Start with a painted faux pumpkin base and decoupage real pressed botanicals to create beautiful floral pumpkins! Multiple pumpkin options will be available to create your own floral pumpkin patch!
Beaded Spider Suncatchers
October 10th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Verona Maker Space
Learn jewelry assemblage techniques to create a spider suncatcher. A plethora of crystal and glass beads will be on hand to make your spider one-of-a-kind! Suspend your spider for a unique suncatcher! All supplies provided and no experience necessary.
Make Creativity a Habit Retreat
October 11th, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Slate Blue Studios
Join me for a full-day creative retreat designed to help you build sustainable, joyful creative habits through playful exploration and hands-on making. This retreat is not about perfection or creating finished masterpieces—it’s about practicing creativity in small, approachable ways within a supportive creative community.
Throughout the day, participants will explore a series of guided activities that encourage experimentation, curiosity, and creative confidence. Using an abundance of supplies in some unexpected ways, we'll try techniques such as yarn painting, mini collage, sgraffito with oil pastels, meditative watercolor exploration, painting with yarn, and other playful creative exercises designed to spark inspiration and lower creative resistance.
Whether you’re a seasoned artist, a curious beginner, or simply someone craving dedicated time to create, this retreat offers space to slow down, reconnect with your imagination, and discover practical ways to make creativity a regular part of your life.
Lunch, snacks, and plenty of supplies are included, along with materials to take home so you can continue your creative practice beyond the retreat.
Cost should not be a barrier to creativity. If you are interested in this class, but cost is holding you back, Slate Blue Studios offers tuition assistance scholarships! Complete the form at slatebluestudios.com/scholarship
Potion Bottles
October 17th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Create an apothecary collection of potions! Make a set of three potion bottles, each complete with magical, swirling liquid and embellished with seasonal charms and labels. Bottles will be sealed with black hot glue - intended to resemble a wax seal - so your bottles last.
Pressed Flower Luminaries
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Capture a piece of summer and enjoy the candle-lit glow of pressed flower luminaries as a reminder of nature’s beauty! Make a set of glass luminaries using pressed wildflowers and additional embellishments. Light your luminaries with electric or wax candles and remember the summer sunshine in the middle of winter!
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Make Creativity a Habit Series: Gel Plate Printmaking
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Create beautifully layered prints full of texture and color! Gel plate printmaking uses gelatin plates and printing inks to capture impressions from found objects to create unique mono prints. This art practice provides endless possibilities for creativity - a great way to explore art playfully!
Make Creativity a Habit Workshop Series
Make Creativity a Habit is a workshop series focused on practicing playful art making. Lacking creativity? Don’t feel like a creative person? Need an outlet to cope? This workshop series creates an art journal using a new technique each week and practices focusing on the process of creating art! Focusing on the process of making art – rather than the product is a powerful tool to explore playful creativity. We don’t need creative careers, art degrees, or art studios to start a creative practice. We practice the most important part of creativity – the process of making art – to make being creative a regular and achievable habit in our lives.
Week 1: Gel Plate Printmaking
Week 2: Reverse Watercolor
Week 3: Linocut Block Printing
Week 4: Mixed Media Collage
Week 5: Meditative Drawing
Make Creativity a Habit Series: Reverse Watercolor
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Using watercolor paints, we will create colorful and abstract pages. Once dry, we will use a variety of black pens and markers to create doodles and line drawings inspired by the abstract shapes we create. Think coloring book – but in reverse! This is a great way to fight perfectionism and simply focus on marks on a page, letting go of expectations.
Make Creativity a Habit Series: Linocut and Block Printing
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Learn the fundamentals of linocut printmaking! We will learn and practice carving skills to make beautiful linoleum-style blocks that can be used again and again. Carving will start with pink school erasers and then move to linoleum blocks of different sizes. We will print our designs using ink pads and colorful printing inks. And to further boost the connection to our new creative community, we will share our blocks to create artist trading cards for each other!
Make Creativity a Habit Series: Mixed Media Collage
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A fun expression of art through collecting images and text from books and magazines, collage is a familiar art form. We will level-up our collage experience to experiment with mixed media elements. We’ll have access to gel plate prints, block printing, tempera paint sticks, paint pens, and sewing supplies to enhance and embellish our work for a fun twist.
Make Creativity a Habit Series: Mediative Drawing
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Meditative Drawing, Doodling, Zendoodles; known by many names, this art practice is a soothing retreat for the mind that offers endless creativity! We will learn a number of techniques ranging from freeform, loose drawing to more patterned and controlled drawing so you can explore different techniques. Then we’ll take time to practice what we learn, using plenty of prompts and tools to guide decision making as we go.
Wrapped Meditation Stones
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Meditation stones can be beautiful objects that remind you to pause for a moment and be present. They can be part of a meditation practice. Or they can simply be a way of connecting with the natural world. Wrap stones in leather and twine, incorporating other natural objects like twigs, stones, or shells to create beautiful natural objects. Make multiple wrapped stones.
Surrealism Collage
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Step into the dreamlike world of surrealism in this collage workshop where imagination knows no bounds! Using images from magazines and books, create thought-provoking collage that blends the unexpected and uncanny. You'll learn basic collage techniques, composition tips, and how to harness juxtaposition to craft artworks that challenge logic and spark curiosity. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just looking to try something new, this workshop is open to all skill levels. All materials provided—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to dive into the bizarre and beautiful!
Embroidered Photos
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Embroidered photos are a great way to explore creativity through the process of using embroidery in a non-traditional way! No embroidery experience needed! We'll learn and use simple stitches for big impact. More advanced stitch ideas and demos will also be provided. Bring a few photos - photo paper is just fine - no special paper needed. Practice photos will be provided.
Garden Owls
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Create cute little owl sculptures for your garden! We'll paint our
owls; giving them personality! Owls are made from sturdy concrete pavers which make them perfect for standing strong outside!
Wish Jars: Kids Star Origami
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Learn to fold colorful origami wish stars! Write wishes on your stars and fill a star-shaped Wish Jar. Make an abundance of stars with plenty of help to get you started.
Mandala Mobiles
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Create colorful, woven mandala stars from cardstock, ribbon, threads, and yarn. Hang your creations from a Willow branch. Create many woven mandala stars for a full mobile!
Kids Stained Glass: Luminaries and Trinket Jars
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Create colorful stained glass-inspired jars! We will decoupage heart-shaped and square tissue paper pieces onto jars to make beautiful, shiny stained glass effect. Add a battery-operated candle for luminaries or leave jars empty to hold precious trinkets and collections. Stained glass jars have gold lids to keep everything they hold safe and secure.
Embroidery Hoop Sun Catchers
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Enjoy light in a new way! Using embroidery hoops and chicken wire as a base, we will add brilliant glass beads to sparkle in the sun. The embroidery hoops will be prepared and ready for beading. All supplies provided and no experience needed.
The Printed Garden Retreat
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Explore botanical printing using multiple techniques; cyanotype (sun printing) on canvas tote bags, gel plate printmaking, and hape some (Japanese flower hammering) floral banners. This 3-part class will be the ultimate celebration of the summer garden! All materials provided, but bring botanicals (leaves and flowers) if you have some you love.
We will work in two beautiful studios at Art House 360; Slate Blue Studios and Verona Maker Space. There will plenty of time to work through our art, with freedom to explore Art House and move between gel plate printing and flower pounding.
