EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
Upcoming Events & Workshops
Join us for a special "Art & Lit" program where we will explore Dolly Parton's book, "Coat of Many Colors".
ART & LIT is a guided art lesson for preschool and young elementary aged (4-9) students and their parent(s) or guardian.
Following the read-a-loud, students will have an opportunity to create their own colorful paper mosaic coats PLUS a second coat, using vivid colors and a variety of materials.
$10 per child. All supplies included.
Step into a hands-on workshop where scissors, paper, and imagination collide. In this session, participants will explore the art of contemporary collage — cutting, layering, and reassembling found images, textures, and text to build entirely new visual worlds.
Guided by a series of creative prompts, you'll experiment with unexpected juxtapositions, play with scale and perspective, and discover how fragments of the familiar can transform into something wholly original. No prior art experience is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to see everyday materials in a new light.
By the end of the workshop, you'll walk away with your own original collage piece and a fresh perspective on how reality can be reimagined, one cut and paste at a time.
All supplies provided; all skill levels welcome. Just bring your imagination!
Join artist Allan Ginsburg for this hands-on workshop exploring watercolor techniques and succulents!! Beginner Friendly!
Succulents are known for their defined lines, unique shapes and fun textures. They're not only popular additions to the home garden and planters, but they have become popular home decor elements.
Join Allan Ginsburg in this watercolor workshop focused on mastering shading techniques and color blending. Participants will work alongside Ginsburg, step-by-step, working to create their own one-of-a-kind finished 8x10 masterpiece, suitable for framing.
Participants will be provided watercolor packets that include information and tips for reference and ALL supplies needed for the workshop. $85 pp. Limited to 8 attendees.
Transform tiny canvases into vibrant storytellers! In this intimate workshop, you'll craft enchanting mini-canvases using the dreamy flow of aquarelle (thinned watercolors) and the bold voice of markers—each piece a window into your unique color language.
Picture this: Four pristine 4x4 squares of artist-quality watercolor paper await your touch, like blank stages ready for their opening act. These aren't just exercises—they're invitations to play, experiment, and discover what happens when technique meets pure creative instinct.
Your Creative Journey:
- Guided Discovery: Follow our curated techniques to spark inspiration, or...
- Wild Exploration: Let your artistic spirit run free across the paper landscape
- Personal Palette: Develop your signature style through spontaneous color conversations
- Surprise Masterpieces: Watch unexpected magic emerge from playful experimentation
Each creation tells a story in miniature—perhaps an abstract emotion, a memory fragment, or a burst of pure color joy. Think of them as visual haikus: small in scale, infinite in possibility.
All supplies provided. No Experience needed.
$40 per person.
Why are you irresistibly drawn to certain colors? Why can one shade feel comforting while another makes you feel energized, nostalgic, sophisticated—or even uneasy? And what do the colors you wear, decorate with, and create with say about you?
Psychology of Color is a playful, hands-on exploration of how we see, feel, describe, combine, and communicate through color.
Rather than memorizing what certain colors are supposed to mean, we'll explore your own responses to color—and discover how dramatically those responses change depending on context, proportion, intensity, and the colors surrounding them.
We'll play with hundreds of color samples, experiment with paint, create palettes from emotions and stories, and explore how color can communicate personality and atmosphere without using a single word.
You'll discover the difference between colors you love, colors you live with, and colors that actually feel like you.
This class is for you if…
You're curious about color but don't consider yourself an artist.
You love decorating, fashion, gardening, crafting, painting, or simply surrounding yourself with beautiful things.
You tend to choose the same colors over and over and want to understand why.
You'd like to become more confident choosing and combining colors.
Or—you simply LOVE COLOR and want three hours to play with it!
Absolutely no painting or color-theory experience is required.
What We'll Explore
Your Instinctive Colors
We'll begin by choosing the colors you're naturally drawn to—before you know anything about what's coming.
What Does a Color Say?
Through rapid-fire color association, we'll explore the memories, emotions, places, objects, tastes, personalities, and sensations individual colors evoke.
Learning the Language of Color
We'll play Hues and Cues to see just how differently we describe and interpret color—and practice finding creative language for colors beyond simply "blue" or "green."
Reading a Color Palette
You'll explore curated 5–7 color palettes and imagine the worlds they create. Who lives here? Where are we? What season is it? What does this place feel like?
Telling a Story Through Color
Given an unexpected prompt, you'll create a 5–7 color palette designed to communicate that feeling, place, person, or story—then we'll see what everyone else reads from it.
The Psychology of Proportion: 70/20/10Using real paint, you'll create a series of small abstract studies with the same three colors in different proportions and experience how dramatically the emotional impact changes when one color becomes dominant, supporting, or accent.
The Colors You Live In
We'll consider the colors in your wardrobe and home. Which colors do you surround yourself with? Which do you put on your body? Which do you avoid? Do those choices still represent you?
Your Personal Color Portrait
We'll finish by creating a 5–7 color palette that represents you right now. Then we'll return to the three colors you instinctively chose at the beginning and see what—if anything—has changed.
You'll Take Home
Your Custom Color Fan Deck — a personal collection of colors and discoveries from the workshop to use as inspiration for art, decorating, clothing, and future creative projects.
Mini Original Color Studies — your painted 70/20/10 experiments, small enough to frame as abstract artwork.
Color Homework — playful prompts to continue noticing how color affects your mood, environment, wardrobe, home, and creative choices long after class ends.
Supplies
Everything is provided. Paint, brushes, surfaces, color samples, palettes, tools, and materials are waiting for you.
Just show up ready to look at color differently.
3 hours | $150 per person | All supplies included | Beginner friendly
How do artists look at a color and know how to mix it?
Why does your green turn muddy? How do you make a color softer without simply making it lighter? What's the difference between a tint, tone, and shade? And how can you mix dozens of beautiful colors from just a handful of paints?
The Art of Mixing Color is a hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of color mixing, inspired by the color principles and perceptual approach.
Rather than memorizing dozens of paint formulas, you'll learn to see color more accurately and understand how hue, value, intensity, temperature, and complementary colors work together.
We'll mix. A LOT.
You'll create secondary and tertiary colors from primary colors, lighten and darken hues, neutralize brilliant colors, create rich chromatic grays and browns, and discover just how enormous a color world can emerge from a very limited palette.
Along the way, you'll paint your own color experiments and assemble them into a custom color fan deck you can keep and use as a reference for future painting, decorating, crafting, and creative projects.
3 hours | $150 per person | All supplies included | Beginner friendly
Discover the meditative art of paper mosaic in this relaxed, beginner-friendly workshop! No experience needed — just bring your curiosity and creativity.
You'll start by choosing your design: pick from a selection of pre-sketched black-and-white designs (think animals, florals, landscapes, abstract patterns, and more), or go rogue and sketch your own original vision. Either path leads to the same colorful destination.
Using an array of vibrant paper squares (and circles in honor of #nationaldotday), you'll piece together your image piece by piece, playing with color, contrast, and composition as you go. Inspiration boards will be on hand throughout the session if you want ideas for color palettes or pattern styles, but the creative choices are entirely yours.
What's included:
- Black-and-white background paper & templates (or blank paper if you'd rather draw your own)
- A rainbow of colorful paper squares (and circle)
- Glue, scissors, and all other supplies
- Inspiration images and guidance from your instructor
Mandalas have been used for centuries as tools for meditation, storytelling, and self-reflection — from Buddhist sand paintings to Gothic cathedral windows to Carl Jung's own sketchbooks. In this workshop, you'll learn the history and symbolism behind these circular designs, then spend the rest of the session creating two mandalas of your own.
What you'll do:
- Explore the origins of mandalas across Hindu, Buddhist, and Western psychological traditions
- Look at real examples spanning centuries and cultures
- Create a guided mandala using a structured template — great for beginners
- Create a freeform mandala, working intuitively with no rules or guides
Who it's for: Anyone curious about mandala art, meditation, or mindful creativity — no drawing skill required.
Join artist Deborah Ellington for a hands-on glass workshop and create your own one-of-a-kind nightlight. Working with thin sheets of colored glass and decorative glass baubles, participants will design and compose a unique piece under Deborah's guidance, layering color, texture, and light to bring their vision to life.
Each design will be professionally kiln-fired to fuse the glass into a finished piece, then delivered to the gallery within two weeks, complete with a light kit ready for display in your home.
All supplies are included — just bring your creativity!
Join us for a bracelet workshop event with Cecille Wright of Fern Home & Fashion!! This is perfect for moms and daughters, groups of friends, or to join on your own!!
What to Expect-
*Two handcrafted crystal bracelets ($30 per person)
*Personal crystal consultation - Cecille Wright, of Fern Home and Fashion, will guide you through the crystal selection process, choosing what best fits your lifestyle and needs at this time. Or, simply choose the crystals that you LOVE to create a one-of-a-kind bracelet.
*Optional add-on bracelets available for $10 each.
See above for the complete workshop description.
Slip into something dark and join us for an evening happy hour steeped in shadow and texture. This October, we're spotlighting a trio of artists — Doni Langlois, Eileen McClellan, and Janet Haynes — whose works share a subtly haunting sensibility, rich with layered surfaces, moody depth, and an undercurrent of the uncanny. Together, their pieces invite a slower kind of looking — the kind that rewards lingering.
Guests are invited to dress in black for the occasion, sip something dark alongside us, and take in the textures of the season.
Stay on after happy hour for our Opening Reception of The Mending Project, running from 6–8 PM, as we transition from shadow into repair.
Join us for the Opening Reception of "The Mending Project," a solo art exhibition by Shauna Martin.
Artist Statement
Loss rearranges the landscape of who we are. In this series, trees serve as vessels for exploring grief, memories, and the quiet work of transition. Each piece begins as a photograph fused to wood through layers of encaustic wax. Portions of the images are intentionally left incomplete, their missing forms standing in to reflect the absence left by loss.
Within these spaces, materials associated with repair and reconnection - sewing patterns, thread, tape, nails, and hinges - are embedded into the surface. Each carries a distinct language of mending: binding, fastening, holding, and reopening. These elements do not replace what is gone, but instead make visible the ongoing, imperfect process of piecing together a life that continues forward after loss.
The work emphasizes transparency in healing. Rather than concealing damage, each piece reveals the cracks, fractures, and points of repair - elevating them as integral and even beautiful aspects of the whole. In doing so, the work creates space for viewers to recognize their own experiences of grief, transition, and resilience. A restrained palette of black, white, and ochre allows texture and material presence to speak, reinforcing the tactile, meditative nature of the process.
Rooted in the belief that creative practice can support emotional healing, The Mending Project positions art as both reflection and a tool. The work invites engagement not only as visual experience, but as a catalyst for dialogue around loss, recovery, and personal transformation. It offers a framework through which individuals and communities can consider how brokenness is not an endpoint, but part of an ongoing process of reconstruction through transition.
Clay artist Doni Langlois will be your guide in creating two 4 “X 4” garden ornaments
from clay in this basic ceramic class. You will learn to make hollow shaped forms of
either birds, hearts or one of each! Decorate each from unlimited ideas with stamps, cut
outs, designs, color and more – all materials and firings provided by Doni. Beads will be
chosen the last class for finishing after the final firing. This class is 2.5 hours ea. on two
consecutive Saturdays and pick up of your final piece is available one week after the
last class.
Sign up now! Class is limited to 8
$125 pp
Sat. Oct 17th, 1 PM -3:30 PM AND
Sat Oct 24th, 1 PM – 3:30 PM
Pick up within 2 weeks at the gallery.