March 2012
Mar 4th
Join us Sunday (March 4) at 7 PM for a dessert concert at Mountain Springs Lodge with special guest Christopher Williams.
Cost is $10 at the door and includes dessert. (Kids $5)
Christopher Williams
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Mar 17th - 31st
This retreat is to encourage and support high quality, uninterrupted work time for artists, writers and musicians. it is designed with a minimum of programming or other obligations so that participatns can focus completely on their work in...
June 2012
Jun 25th - Jul 1st
Afternoons
Instruction will cover strategies for drawing from observation. Participants will practice techniques for making interesting marks using pencils, erasers and graphite washes. After some initial exercises, students will select their own subject...
Jun 25th - Jul 1st
Mornings
Come join in the fun as we explore an exciting ceramic process known as Raku. During this workshop we will be both hand-building and throwing forms on the wheel, as well as exploring the relationship between form and finish.
The...
Jun 25th - Jul 1st
Afternoons
Experience the challenge of glass. All levels of experience are welcome. Beginners will learn how to work with leaded stained glass. Experienced glass workers can design and create more complex projects. Glass designers can...
Jun 25th - Jul 1st
Mornings
Designing and weaving doubleweave fabric will be the focus of this year’s loom weaving class with Liz and Suzanne. Luminous color, fabulous fibers, and multiple layers using 4 to 8 harnesses looms will be options for students who...
July 2012
Jul 2nd - 8th
Mornings
Participants will bring a profile photo of a subject in which the subject is facing a light source and use the photo to make a relief portrait in low fire clay. Work will be bisque fired and finished in a faux bronze patina. The class is open also...
Jul 2nd - 8th
Afternoons
What color is the 23rd Psalm? What shape is it? What is its texture? In this class, participants will have the opportunity to select and meditate upon a scriptural passage, and allow a weaving to emerge from the experience...
Jul 2nd - 8th
Afternoons
Join us for a quiet time of creating mixed media colored design in a circular format. This introspective week will emphasize following process without preconceived ideas, creating "with the spirit" . This year, we will also explore the...
Jul 2nd - 8th
Mornings
This beginning oil painting class will familiarize students with materials and processes, introduce students to concepts of positive and negative space, line, value, and color, and will give each student the ability and opportunity to paint a still...
Jul 2nd - 8th
Afternoons
Joe Hester has inspired people for decades to create visually the yearnings of their heart. In spite of Joe’s current battle with cancer, he is hopeful to be able to teach this class again, a favorite of so many over the years....
Jul 9th - 15th
Afternoons
By cutting and assembling shapes of extruded polystyrene, we will create a simple armature. This will be sealed and will remain in the finished sculpture. Paper pulp is then added and detail is made with direct application of the clay paper. When it...
Jul 9th - 15th
Mornings
Through word and image we will explore the various ways in which beauty is revealed to us and shared through us: beauty of the extraordinary and the ordinary, beauty of creation and the cross, beauty within ourselves and in relationship to...
Jul 9th - 15th
Afternoons
By invoking the power of words, this class will explore ways to create our own treasury of sacred creative expressions. We will use language creatively to engage the ways we see ourselves, perhaps alter our views and possibly change how...
Jul 9th - 15th
Mornings
Instructor: Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett and Scott Dillman will be hosting a hand-built ceramics and sculpture class. All ages and experience are welcome to share in the art of hand building vessels and learning techniques of working with forms. We will pay...
Jul 16th - 22nd
Afternoons
Learn to sculpt in wood and/or soapstone in Bob's Barn, a favorite venue at the Guild and with a faculty favorite, John Thompson. All materials are provided, but if students have favorite carving tools of their own, they should bring them along...
Jul 16th - 22nd
Mornings
In this workshop we will be exploring the tradition of creating ceramic items that can be used in everyday life, such as cups, bowls, plates and crocks. We will be focusing on wheel technique and forms that best work for their application...
Jul 16th - 22nd
Afternoons
This is a class many have requested. It will be great fun and you will feel your work is like magic. Collecting dried leaves and plants around the Guild, we will clean, cook, beat and then use the pulp to create beautiful natural papers. The more...
Jul 16th - 22nd
Mornings
Students will be introduced to the methods of etching and collagraph through creation of images chosen by each individual. Bring a drawing or photograph that you would like to work from, or find one from the resources provided. ...
Jul 23rd - 29th
Afternoons
If you have not experienced taking a class from John before, you are in for a treat. You will learn three basic techniques: drypoint, etching and embossing. No previous experience is required - beautiful results and great fun are assured...
Jul 23rd - 29th
Mornings
Explore the various ways of creating functional pottery. Learn different hand building techniques including slabs, coils, and pinched pots or try your hands at throwing on a potter’s wheel. Once the projects have been fired they...
Jul 23rd - 29th
Mornings
Class participants may choose to create art journals, altered books, or luminaries using calligraphy, collage techniques and drawings. Instruction will be offered in various styles of calligraphy for use in these projects....
Jul 23rd - 29th
Afternoons
Jan mixes an experienced songwriting, performing and recording career with down-home approachability and fun. All levels of experience are welcome in an unforgettable time creating and laughing together. As per Guild tradition, the week...
Jul 23rd - 29th
Mornings
Quiet and prayerful writing of an icon in the Russian and Greek Byzantine style will be the focus of this class. In quiet community, the group will learn the step-by-step tradition of bringing light out of darkness and order out of chaos....
Jul 30th - Aug 5th
Once we get involved with Jesus, our understanding of time changes. We begin to see that the hours and weeks and seasons that we so carefully measure define a path that spirals and returns through eternity. The Christian tradition gives us...
August 2012
Aug 6th - 12th
Mornings
The class will explore each person's desire to create and explore from experiences both within and without using both classical and modern materials, and approaches. Please come with photos, sketches, and ideas to begin the...
Aug 6th - 12th
Mornings
Why not give alchemy a try? We’ve not yet turned base materials into gold, but we do some wonderful things with glass, metal and heat! Join us in exploring vitreous enamel fused to a copper base. The kiln glows,...
Aug 6th - 12th
Afternoons
Like paper collage, there are as many ways to approach fabric collage as there are people doing it. We will focus on fused collage to create small artworks in both 2D and 3D, which will then be machine and hand stitched and embellished...
Aug 6th - 12th
Mornings
Barrel firing is a firing process that closely simulates pit firing--an ancient way of firing--in a more controlled manner. Ceramic objects are colored not by glaze but by the natural patterns of smoke and minerals in the firing itself...
Aug 6th - 12th
Afternoons
Intensity and breakthrough combinations of meaning and materials in personal book form are the directions of this course. Drawing, painting, scribbling, writing, listing, calligraphy, collage and doodles will be explored. A wide range of...
Aug 13th - 19th
Mornings
Learn the basic techniques of designing and creating fashion jewelry. We will work with beads made of glass, natural materials (e.g. turquoise, pearls, hematite), crystal, cloisonné, charms and more, combined with silver- and gold-dipped accents and...
Aug 13th - 19th
Afternoons
Exploring the relationship between spirituality and art we will use the materials and methods of the Australian Aborigines to make our own paints from colored earth and clay. We will study the concept of the "dreamtime...
Aug 13th - 19th
Mornings
Let's spend a week carefully observing, searching God's handiwork for clues about Himself and His ways, seeing in the simplest thing intricacy and truth and in apparent anomalies the parts they play in His huge pulse and pattern. ...
Aug 13th - 19th
Afternoons
We will explore the basics of beading on fabric, whether for art quilts, jewelry, or the fabric boxes and shrines made in the Fabric Collage Class during Week 7. Students will learn about the variety of materials available to them, the...
Aug 13th - 19th
Mornings
This course provides an introduction to paper clay. I’ve been working with clay for over thirty years. Paper clay became available to me as a repair medium in 2000. Since then it has become more important in my work, allowing me to make...
Aug 20th - 24th
Mornings
"What will you do with your one wild and precious life?"
-Mary Oliver
The beauty of poetry and nature can break open our hearts and provide a foretaste of heaven, helping us to step into the truth of who we are in...
