Workshops

Artists will select their favorite animal and follow drawing prompts to create a wintertime animal in an inviting and colorful winter landscape.
Ages: 5 – 12
Class Size: 3+
Instructor: Lori Green
Member: $35 / Non-Member: $45 (Join all three Saturday morning sessions with Lori Green, November 9, 16 and 23, and get a $15 discount)

Make festive cards for everyone on your list! Play with different art materials and learn some fun techniques along the way. Follow-up the workshop by seeing a performance of The Nutcracker in the theater.
Ages: All ages welcome. Guardians should work with small children.
Free
Nutcracker performance at 2pm requires tickets

Artists will make a cardboard gingerbread house complete with “real” fluffy snow (fluffy white glue).
Ages: 5 – 12
Class Size: 3+
Instructor: Lori Green
Member: $35 / Non-Member: $45 (Join all three Saturday morning sessions with Lori Green, November 9, 16, and 23 and get a $15 discount)

Create the magic of a vintage Santa mug and Christmas cookie sculpture – with a little
hot cocoa treat – in this holiday art class.
Ages: 5-12
Class Size: 3+
Instructor: Lori Green
Member: $35 / Non-Member: $45

Weave a mini tapestry that can be used as a tag for presents, a brooch or a pendant. Take home a unique piece of art as well as the PVC pipe loom provided to continue expressing yourself through weaving.
Ages: 13+
Class Size: 3 – 6
Instructor: Dana Schultz, Certified Weaver
Member: $45 / Non-Member: $55 (includes all supplies and take-home loom)

Artists of all skill levels will explore watercolor as a fun and versatile medium! We will discuss various watercolor techniques, gesture and contour drawing styles, the color wheel and approaches to color mixing. Work at your own pace with guidance and feedback from the instructor. Materials included.

A native of Carrollton, Clint Samples is a Professor of Art and Interim Dean for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of West Georgia. Clint is also a 1996 alumnus of UWG, earning a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art Education. He earned his MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1998. Before UWG, Clint worked as a textile designer for Milliken and Company (1999-2004) in LaGrange, Georgia.

Ages: 13+
Instructor: Clint Samples
Member: $65 / Non-Member: $75

Artists will learn the basics of drawing and painting a bird in watercolor and can then add a background of their choice. Please note: Students may finish works earlier than the allotted time period.
Free

Session I
Ages: 5 – 7 / 11am – 12pm

Session II
Ages: 8 – 12 / 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Ages: 5 – 7 / 11am – 12pm
Young artists will make “pocket” books they can use to draw and collect little treasures in. They will decorate their books with fun items.

Ages: 8 – 12 / 2pm – 3:30pm
Artists will create fun and simple books that they can use to draw and write in. Students will mix and match different papers and decorate their covers.

Free

Relief allows the student to use a gouge tool to carve into a matrix of choice to make multiples of a single work. The student will learn carving techniques, how to print with a barren and a press, and gain a knowledge of supplies and creating multiples.
Ages: 14 – Adult
Class Size: 3 – 10
Instructor: Rose Hayden
Member: $35 /Non-Member: $45

The Crash Independent Music Business Academy offers a dynamic, boot camp-style crash course into the $4 billion independent music business sector with expert industry guidance from Juice + Self. Transform into a thriving music professional by implementing our FIMM System. Learn to protect your intellectual property, unlock multiple revenue streams and reset your mindset.

Juice + Self is a Grammy-nominated and award-winning husband and wife team and co-owners of Ceo Self Coaching. As alumni of the world-class Full Sail University, they combine their extensive music industry expertise to empower adults and high school students to succeed in the independent music industry. They were independently nominated for Best Album, have garnered multiple awards.
Member: $165 /Non-Member: $185

Students will learn how to produce bound pages and will create a fabric cover for their project. Everyone will leave with a small, finished book to write or sketch in. All experience levels are welcome.
Ages: 14+
Class Size: 5 – 10
Instructor: Channing Gray
Member: $75 /Non-Member: $85

Celebrate the upcoming Earth Day by making colorful, recycled bird feeders.
Ages: 5 – 12 (Guardians may need to work with younger children)
Free