Photography - Cyanotype on Fabric Sertoma Arts Center Raleigh Arts
Sept 21, 2024
11-4pm
$126
Learn to expose your favorite plant silhouette onto cotton fabrics. This class will teach you the basics in coating fabric, drying it, exposing, rinsing, and washing. When it come to coating cyanotype on fabric there are different nuances that are inherently different to your typical paper coating process. We will experiment with a few basic tried and true techniques and show you how to accomplish the deepest Prussian blues. The fabric artworks, once dry, can be used in a variety of projects such as: quilt squares, patches, garment making, wall hangings, and much more. Students will provide $15 to instructor for fabric supplied. All Levels. 1 Session.

Fibers - Sewing for Beginners
09/11/2024 -09/18/2024
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sertoma Arts Center
1400 W Millbrook Rd
Raleigh, NC, 27612
(919)996-2329
In this class you will learn about needles, fabric, and how to use a sewing machines basic functions. Students will choose from two simple designs: a pillow or sleep mask. No knowledge of sewing is required. Supplies included. We will be using Sertoma's sewing machines.
2 sessions.
Supplies provided by Sertoma Arts Center.

Family - Holiday Printmaking: Tea Towel Gifts
10/01/2024 -10/08/2024
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Pullen Arts Center
105 Pullen Rd
Raleigh, NC, 27607
(919)996-6126
Learn the repeat design of block printing with a loved one. Each Participant pairing will create a set of tea towels with their unique design. These are great gifts or home decoration. Sign up with your child or a loved one and make a memorable item to cherish in your home or gift to another. Please bring a few holiday designs in mind you can choose something spooky or sparkly, either way you'll have a good time. Child (8+) or adult may register. No Experience needed. All supplies included.

Private Studio Lesson 3 hours
$200.00

This will be a session in my paper studio for up to 3 hours. Pulp will be made and discussed ahead of time and can be arranged for you to attend the beat the day prior. instruction will be collaborative and we will make work beside each other and you will get to a further look into the day to day of a papermaker. Inquire about the dates you've chosen to be in the studio. Garner Location

NCSTATE CRAFTS CENTER
Public full-add yourself to the waitlist for another class to open NC state student spots still open!

Explore the idea that a tool can be a piece of functional artwork. Learn to make a variety of brushes and how to harvest and source materials. You’ll create brush heads from hair, fur, and natural fiber. For brush handles you’ll use bamboo, wood, and even learn the possibilities of how clay can be incorporated to make handles and ferrule. This workshop includes discussions, slide presentations, and collaborations. The brushes can be used in various media with the possibility of mark making unique to each brush. You can use them in alternative process photography, ceramic mark making, lithography, watercolor, and much more.
A materials fee of $65 per student is payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop.
Saturday, Sept 14: 10:30am - 4:00pm
& Sunday, Sept 15: 12:30 - 4:00pm
Skill Level: Open to all
COST: $55/students $70/public
Prerequisites: None
If you cannot make it for the entire day on both days you can be sure to be in attendance for demos Sat 10:30-12 and Sunday 12:30-2

Papermaking - Eastern Papermaking
Aug 3rd and 4th, 2024 10-4
Sertoma Arts Center
Raleigh
Learn to make beautiful handmade sheets of paper in this hands on workshop. The workshop will begin with a demonstration and hands-on processing, cooking, scraping, and beating of bast fibers (e.g. kozo) into both washi paper using Eastern, specifically Japanese, sheet forming methods and thick alternative papers. Embracing the communal aspect of papermaking, we will concoct and experiment with pulp mixtures combining techniques of both the eastern and western worlds of sheet forming by exploring alternative techniques and materials to use with bast fibers. Bring your lunch and sign up with a friend or a loved one to explore this historical craft of making paper fibers from the plants all around us. All Ages and Levels of Experience Welcome.
A special treat of making paper with Do'Bark from Vietnam. This is a fiber that is only grown in Hanoi and I've gotten the fiber from a paper making community in Hanoi.

Be sure to check back for the link to my next brushmaking in Baltimore April 12&13th, 2024, Save the date.

Painting with Light at ARTSPACE SUMMER CAMPS
Register Feb 7th,
grades 3-5
July 29- Aug 2, 2024
Afternoon Class, 9-12am
$150 members / $175 non-members

Make your own mark! Using only the unique chemistry (handled by instructor in demonstration) and the sun, young artists will capture works of art from nature and objects they adore. This historical photographic process dates back to the 1800s and creates one of a kind photograms. Much like the very first phonebook published by artist Anna Atkins, we will make a small accordion book of our images for keeping in the library. The class will end with a small presentation of their works on the last day.
https://artspacenc.org/summer-art-camps/

July 16th, 23rd, 30th 5-6:30pm. Tuesday Evenings
Sertoma Arts Center Raleigh, NC.
Photography for Beginners Series: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO. What are all these numbers anyway? In this course you will learn how to adjust camera settings appropriate to your way of making and light source. Learning the use and harmony of these camera's settings is key to making impeccable images with any camera technology. No experience required; student must bring camera with manual functions. Digital and Film Cameras are welcomed. 3 sessions.

PAPERMAKING : Paper Pulp at ARTSPACE Summer Camp
Registration begins Feb 7th
June 10-14, 2024
Grades 6-8
Morning Class, 9am-12pm
$150 members / $175 non-members
Raleigh, NC.

Young artists will learn how to make pulp for handmade paper to be used in many different artworks. Each student will participate in every stage of the papermaking process as we discuss variations on studio set ups, preparing pulp, mixing additives, sheet forming, pulp painting, pressing, and drying. We will create a hardbound book with the handmade paper we create.

https://artspacenc.org/summer-art-camps/

Scholarship application Link will be available when registration begins.