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Nutcracker Painting Workshop
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
December 12th
Ages 13-99+

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Give the traditional Christmas nutcracker a glamorous makeover!
In this festive hour holiday workshop, you’ll transform a plain wooden nutcracker into a holiday masterpiece. We’ll begin with painting techniques designed to help you create your
nutcracker’s personality, color palette and signature look.

What You’ll Experience:

You will have fun transforming a plain wooden nutcracker into a unique holiday work of art by choosing a color palette and decorative design before painting, using acrylic paint to create clean details, patterns and decorative finishes, adding dimension and personality through layering and color.

What You’ll Leave With:

Each attendee will leave with a beautiful, unique, and custom decorated 24″ Nutcracker!

Instructor: Jaycie Baird

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Nutcracker Glam: A Sparkling Holiday Workshop
Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
December 5th
Ages 13-99+

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Give the traditional Christmas nutcracker a glamorous makeover!
In this festive 2½ hour holiday workshop, you’ll transform a plain wooden nutcracker into a holiday masterpiece. We’ll begin with painting techniques designed to help you create your
nutcracker’s personality, color palette and signature look. Then comes the fun part, the BLING!
Choose from an assortment of rhinestones, gems, glitter and other embellishments to add sparkle, texture and plenty of holiday personality to your creation.
Whether your nutcracker is elegant and sophisticated, colorful and whimsical, you’ll have the freedom to make it uniquely yours.
This is a creative holiday experience designed for all skill levels. No previous painting experience is necessary. Just bring your imagination and your love of Christmas sparkle!

What You’ll Experience:

You will have fun transforming a plain wooden nutcracker into a unique holiday work of art by choosing a color palette and decorative design before painting, using acrylic paint to create clean details, patterns and decorative finishes, adding dimension and personality through layering and color, work with rhinestones, gems, glitter, faux fur, and other embellishments. You will also use simple techniques for applying embellishments securely, combining painting and mixed-media techniques to create a polished finished piece, and make creative design choices that reflect their own personality and holiday style.

What You’ll Leave With:

Each attendee will leave with a beautiful, unique, and custom decorated 12″ Nutcracker!

Instructor: Cody West

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Teen Wheel
Saturdays, 9:00am
September 26 – November 14 | Ages 11-15

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Experience of magic of working in clay as you create and glaze functional, decorative, and sculptural forms using a pottery wheel. Students will develop a basic understanding of how to operate a pottery wheel as they work on teacher-led projects and practices.

What You’ll Learn:

In a small, young, and energetic group learning environment, you will learn step-by-step instructions of the fundamentals of how to use a potter’s wheel such as wedging, centering, pulling, shaping, and finishing. With these skills, you will learn how to throw the three basic forms on a potter’s wheel: a cylinder, a bowl, and a simple vase form. You will also learn about basic glazing finishing skills for completing your pottery.

***(Students are required to follow the instructor’s curriculum. Only work produced from that curriculum will be fired.)***

What You’ll Leave With:

Depending on the disciplinary skill of the student, a student may leave with 7-10 completed pieces of pottery from 25lb bag of clay.

(Students will submit glazed works for final firing on the last class of the session. Students will be contacted, via email, once their pottery has finished firing and available for pick up on a later date)

Instructor:  Emery Cotten

Supply List

Students will need to bring:

  1. Own set of clay or throwing tools
  2. Large cleaning sponge
  3. Small clay work sponge
  4. Small bucket for cleaning and tool storage
  5. (Optional) Small/detail paintbrushes for glazing
  6. (Optional) Plastic bags for wrapping work

Students will be provided:

  1. Canvas for wedging at their tables
  2. Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
  3. 1 bag of clay

Links to Class Required Items: (These are recommendations, not the required brands)

  1. Clay / Throwing Tools
  2. Large Cleaning Sponge
  3. Small clay work sponge
    • We recommend buying a basic toolkit with a small sponge included.
  4. Small Bucket for cleaning
    • Any clean, small to medium sized bucket will do.