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September Classes
WATERCOLOR COLLAGE- 2 PARTS
Create beautiful watercolor patterns and then tear, cut and collage your patterns into works of art.
Part I: Wednesday, September 10th 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Part II: Wednesday, September 17th, 1:30-3:30 P.M
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $30 Supplies Included
TIE DYED FOR BEGINNERS
Bring your own white, cotton, pre-washed (or old and stained) shirt, pillow cases, etc.
Saturday, September 13th, 10:30A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Traci Kelly
Fee: $20 supplies included.
DRAWING FROM THE CORE
A fun and playful non-realism drawing experience. Participants will be led through a meditation and drawing exercises to access the deep "inner observer", thus helping facilitate an opening in perception and expanded "artist sight".
Tuesday, September 16th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Edin Sirak
Fee: $20 supplies included
LIFE DRAWING
Come draw the human form with a live model.
Wednesday, September 17th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $15 Supplies Included $10 Bring your own
HOME FETISHES
Create small fetishes for prosperity, protection or whatever you need using clothes pins, paint, fabric and found objects. 2-3 fetishes per student.
Thursday, September 18th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Patricia Bowne
Fee: $20 supplies included
BONES AND FLOWERS: GEORGIA O'KEEFE
This writing workshop is inspired by her art, life, and writings. We'll write, we'll share. Environment and supplies provided.
Friday, September 19th, 1:30-4:40 P.M.
Facilitator: Ingrid Aspromatis
Fee: $20 supplies included.
GLASS ETCHING
Come and learn the basics of etching glass. Design your own stencil or use ours. It's easier than you ever imagined.
Saturday, September 20th, 10:30A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Mary Ng
Fee: $20 supplies included
HAND JOB- 2 PARTS
We'll make wonderful, whimsical puppets. 1st we'll make papier mache heads and hands. 2nd we'll paint, dress, and embellish our puppets. The last half hour is for spontaneous play w/the characters we've created.
Part I: Saturday, September 20th 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Part II: Saturday, September 27th, 1:30-4:30 P.M. Facilitator: Kaitlin Meadows
Fee: $20 supplies included.
HAIR, FEATHERS, AND FUR
This workshop will give you techniques for drawing in a variety of dry mediums: charcoal, graphite, conte crayons, etc.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included.
MAKING HANDMADE PAPER
Learn to make 100% post recycled paper- 100% fun- 100% successful.
Wednesday, September 24th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee:$20 Supplies Included
SOUL SINGING
Experience the enlivening, healing and transformational aspects of sound and express the essence of your soul.
Thursday, September 25th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Lilla Luoma
Cost: $10 Supplies Included
HOLIDAY COPPER EMBOSSING
Learn the art of copper embossing while creating at least two ornaments reflecting your holiday traditions.
Friday, September 26th, 1:30-4:00 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included.
LOVE OF MY LIFE
Remembering, honoring, celebrating the loves in our lives: friends, family, pets, lovers. Come and create a framed memory collage. Bring copies of photos, letters, and other paper memorabilia. We'll share stories and celebrate our loves. All other supplies included.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2-5P.M.
Facilitator: Kaitlin Meadows
Fee: $20 supplies included.
ONCE JUNK FUNCTIONAL ART
Bring some of your own recycled treasures or use ours. You'll select one functional piece that calls to you and create a Once Junk assemblage .
Tuesday, September 30th, 6-9P.M.
Facilitator: Terri McGuire
Fee: $20 supplies included.
OCTOBER CLASSES
IT'S KNOT EMBROIDERY
You'll learn a variety of knots, wraps, and stitches while creating a small wallhanging.
Wednesday, October 1st, 1:30-3:30 P.M
Facilitator: Ana Yañez
Fee: $15 Supplies included
FUN WITH YUPO
Yupo is a synthetic paper that can be used with all water base mediums, but is especially wonderful with watercolors. It is very affordable, in that should a piece of your work just not "work" .... the paint can be washed completely off and another exploration done. No more wasted paper!
Friday, October 3rd, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included
COLLAGING AND MOBILS
You'll be creating a mobil and your suspended shapes will be collaged with photos, words, and a fun paper selection. It's time to enjoy being creative, and experiment with a 3-D collage.
Monday, October 6th. 6-9 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included.
STAINED GLASS MOSAIC VOTIVES 2 PARTS
Create a beautiful mosaic votive using common household tools and learn a few “tricks of the trade”.
Part I: Wednesday, October 8th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Part II: Wednesday, October 15th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 Supplies Included
WIRE SCULPTURE SUN CATCHERS
A la Caulder, use wire beads and glass to make sculptural hanging forms that will enhance any home.
Wednesday, October 8th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Jessica Shuman
Fee $15 Supplies included
PERSONALIZED DIAS DE LOS MUERTOS MASKS- 2 PARTS
Create your own mask using fabric, paint, yarn, personal treasures, and/or ours. Then consider joining Tucson's Day of the Dead Parade, you'll be covered.
Part I: Friday, October 10th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Part II: Friday, October 17th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Patricia Bowne
Fee: $20 supplies included.
THANKS-GIVING
Learn how to be grateful and come from a place of abundance, rather than resentment and deprivation. Participants will make a Thanks-Giving wreath with potent symbols of their commitment to gratitude, and abundance.
Saturday, October 11th, 9:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Kaitlin Meadows
Fee: $20 supplies included.
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER- 2 PARTS
Learn how to sell your art on eBay, the largest auction and shopping website online. Expose your work to the multitude of eBay users everyday. Do it yourself or learn how you can consign your work and have someone else do it for you.
Lilla has been earning a full-time living selling her wearable and visual art on eBay for the past 5 years.
Part I: Saturday, October 11th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Part II: Saturday. October 18th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Lilla Luoma Fee: $20
BEADED BOOKMARKS
Apply bead stringing techniques and create a beautiful bookmarker using glass, metal, & natural stone beads.
Wednesday, October 15th, 6-8 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 Supplies Included, extra bookmarkers $10
REINCARNATED CLOTHING
Do you have a favorite piece of clothing you don't wear anymore because of ugly stains? Learn how to give it a new life through fabric art! Bring yourself and one or two pieces of your clothing.
Thursday, October 16th, 4-6P.M.
Facilitator: Donette Tyrrell
Fee: $20 supplies included.
CREATING CONTENT ON YOUR WEB PAGE- 2PARTS
If you have been saying you need to build your own webpage, first you need to figure out what you want to include. Learn to dissect the content of a webpage (text, photos +) so you can create your own, about YOU. Also learn free sources for webpage hosting. This class is perfect for WK members who wants to have their own page in the Member’s Gallery at www.womankraft.org.
Part I: Friday, October 17th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Part II: Friday, October 24th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Quynn Elizabeth
Fee: $20 Supplies Incluced
Bring your thumb drive if you have one.
SACRED DOLLS
You will express your inner wisdom as you revive your sense of color, form, and balance. Sacredness can only emerge from within, and the doll treasure is the aesthetic vision of that moment, an object of subconscious association.
Bring personal treasures for decorating and use ours.
Saturday, October 18th, 10: A.M.-1P.M.
Facilitator: Gerrie Young
Fee: $20 with a $5 material fee payable to instructor.
PAINTING WITH OIL STICKS 2 PARTS
You'll learn to create beautiful artwork with this unique oil painting medium.
Part I: Tuesday, October 21st, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Part II: Tuesday, October 28th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Mary Theresa Dietz
Fee: $20 supplies included
HANDMADE GLYCERIN SOAP
You'll have an opportunity to make many bars of this natural vegetable based soap. Use specialty molds, natural oils, organic and inorganic products to customize each bar you make.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Maria Garcia
Fee: $20 supplies included CLASS IS OFF SITE-
WE LEAVE THE CASTLE AT 1:10 P.M.
LIFE DRAWING
Come and draw the human form with a live model.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $15 Supplies included or $10 use your own
HEALING THROUGH SOUND
This workshop teaches you a series of ancient sounds and movements to help cleanse and repair the body's organs. Learn to maintain good health and deal with chronic problems by using health sounds to aid in your healing.
Thursday, October 23rd, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Edin Sirak Fee: $15
HAIR, FEATHERS. FUR
This workshop deals with wet mediums: Inktenses, Graphitints, paints, etc. You'll learn the techniques that'll make painting you guessed it, hair, feathers, and fur a lot easier.
Saturday, October 25th, 10 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included.
NOVEMBER CLASSES
DANCING WRITE FROM THE HEART
This is a movement/writing workshop. Participants focus on accessing our hidden, unacknowledged gifts and desires using Gabrielle Roth's 5 rhythms.
Tuesday, November 4th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Edin Sirak
Fee: $15 supplies included.
FOUND OBJECT MOBILS
Use bike parts, keys, rusted metal, wire, wood, treasures from nature and more in designing and creating your own unique mobil. Use our supplies and feel free to bring your own.
Friday, November 7th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Jessica Shuman
Fee: $20 Supplies Includedi
WORK SMARTER/NOT HARDER: THE NEXT STEP
This workshop takes off where the other stops, adding new information to your growing pyramid of cyber knowledge. Take the mystery out of eBay and how to benefit from it.
Saturday, November 8th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Lilla Luoma
Fee: $20 supplies included.
FUN WITH YUPO
Yupo is a synthetic paper that can be used with all water base mediums, but is especially wonderful with watercolors. It is very affordable, in that should a piece of your work just not "work" .... the paint can be washed completely off and another exploration done. No more wasted paper!
Monday, November 10th, 6-8:30 P.M
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included
WATERCOLOR TISSUE PAPER COLLAGE 2 PARTS
Come learn this beautiful free form art style.
Create watercolor/acrylic washes, collage, and then
detail your work with additional mediums.
Part I: Tuesday, November 11th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Part II: Tuesday, November 18th, 1:30-3:30 P.M
Facilitator: Ana Yañez
Fee: $20 Supplies included.
LEARNING PERSPECTIVE
You'll learn about 1 and 2 point perspective then apply this knowledge to a completed drawing.
Wednesday, November 12th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies included.
ROCK WALLS WITHOUT MORTAR
You can participate in the construction of an on sight rock wall at WomanKraft. You take away the knowledge, WomanKraft continues to beautify our grounds.
Thursday, November 13th, 10A.M.-Noon.
Facilitator: Jane Macomber
Fee: $10 bring your own work gloves.
SHARDS FOR THE SIXTH EXTINCTION
Honoring Endangered Animals
Honor animals that are in danger of becoming extinct by inscribing their names and images on clay shards. In the spring, the shards will be added to a shrine in Nevada.
Friday, November 14th, 1:30-4:00P.M.
Facilitator: Jacob Prehler Fee: $5 Supplies Included
MOSAIC MIRRORS 2 PARTS
Create your own fabulous mosaic mirror! Have fun learning how to mosaic in two easy classes. Your finished product will make a great gift or enhance your favorite room.
Part I: Saturday, November 15th, 9:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Part II: Saturday, November 22nd, 10:30 A.M.-Noon
Facilitator: Traci Kelly
Fee: $22 supplies included.
RECYCLE TRIBE RATTLES- 2 PARTS
We'll be using burned out light bulbs, cardboard tubes, papier mache to create your rattle. Then decorate them the following week.
Part I: Monday, November 17th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Part II: Monday, November 24th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Patricia Bowne
Fee: $20 supplies included
ONCE JUNK GIFT BOXES
It's the season for gifting, and here's a creative, green art project to wow people with. Bring some of your own treasures, use ours, or both. Select from an assortment of our boxes and begin the assemblage process. They are personal and unique.
Tuesday, November 18th, 6-9P.M.
Facilitator: Terri McGuire
Fee: $20 supplies included.
HANDMADE BEESWAX CANDLES
With a creative eye towards the coming Holidays learn to roll your own candles from 100% beeswax. There are many different styles, including techniques for 3-D decorating.
Wednesday, November 19th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 (3) sheets = (4-6) candles Supplies Included.
LIFE DRAWING
Come and draw the human form with a live model.
Wednesday, November 19th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $15 Supplies included or $10 use your own
FRIDA KAHLO WRITING WORKSHOP
We'll be using writing, art, diaries, letters. and music, by and about Frida Kahlo, as a springboard for inspiration. Dress the part if you're inspired.
Friday, November 21st, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Ingrid Aspromatis
Fee: $20 supplies included.
DECEMBER CLASSES
IT'S A WRAP
A year end summary and celebration. Where have I been, who have I lost, and who have I found? What have I accomplished? Where do I go from here? Bring your calendar or datebook to remind yourself about your year. We'll make a treasure map to mark our journeys.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 6-8 P.M.
Facilitator: Kaitlin Meadows
Fee: $20 supplies included.
FLAT STAINED GLASS MOSAIC- 2 PARTS
Create (abstract or realism) an 8’ x 10”mosaic. Learn to use glass cutters, nippers, etc.
Part I: Wednesday, December 3rd, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Part II: Wednesday, December 10th, 1:30-3:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
FEE : $25 Supplies Included
REINCARNATED CLOTHING
Do you have a favorite piece of clothing you don't wear anymore because of ugly stains? Learn how to give it a new life through fabric art! Bring yourself and one or two pieces of your clothing.
Thursday, December 4th, 4-6 P.M.
Facilitator: Donette Tyrrell
Fee: $20 supplies included.
SELF PROMOTION FOR ARTISTS
Making art is one thing, but then how do you promote your self so people can find it? This workshop assists artists in creating language and gathering other content (photos, reviews, etc) that will help them list, announce and highlight their artistic offerings of any kind. Find out some free ways to get publicity around town as well as in the web.
Friday, December 5th, 1:30-4:00 P.M.
Facilitator: Quynn Elizabeth
Fee: $10 supplies included.
OUTDOOR MOSAIC MURAL 2-PARTS
Learn the basics of how to design and execute an outdoor ceramic mural. Bring along a pair of work gloves and let the fun begin.
Part I: Saturday, December 6th, 9:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Part II: Saturday, Dec 13th, 10:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M
Facilitator: Traci Kelley
Fee: $20 supplies included.
YES, I CAN!
Let's create a New Year's affirmation journal. Not guilty resolutions, not promises to yourself, likely to get broken, but affirmations for prompting the emergence of your best self and fulfillment of dreams.
Tuesday, December 9th, 6-8 P.M.
Facilitator: Kaitlin Meadows
Fee: $20 supplies included.
SOUL SINGING
Experience the enlivening, healing and transformational aspects of sound and express the essence of your soul.
Thursday, December 11th, 6:30-8:30 P.M
Facilitator: Lilla Luoma
Cost: $10 Supplies Included
REKINDLING THE SPIRIT OF THE ENDANGERED- 2 PARTS
Winter Solstice paper making ceremony. Session one: We'll make paper from Natural fibers and incorporate
the forms of endangered animals in order to create a ceremony during the second session on 12/19/08, when a new fire will be kindled and the paper consumed in flames.
Part I: Friday, December 12th, 1:30-3:30P.M.
Part II: Friday, December 19th, 1:30-3:30 P.M. Facilitator: Jacob Prehler
Fee: $5 supplies included.
BOOKMAKING
Learn to create your own handmade books using a variety of unusual materials and forms. It's fun!
Saturday, December 13th, 1-5 P.M.
Facilitator: Jessica Shuman
Fee: $20 supplies included
OIL STICKS AND MONOPRINTS
You'll design, using oil sticks on glass plate, a print and pull up to three copies. A final application of paint to "clean up" your image and you'll also walk away with a reverse glass painting.
Tuesday, December 16th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Mary Theresa Dietz
Fee: $25 supplies included
ACRYLIC INKS AND YUPO PAPER
Acrylic inks will be used to paint Yupo paper. Then we'll weave a background and collage shapes cut from Yupo. This art will be glued to mat board and is then ready for framing.
Wednesday, December 17th, 1:30-4:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Mary Jane Lyon
Fee: $20 supplies included.
LIFE DRAWING
Come and draw the human form with a live model.
Wednesday, December 17th, 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $15 Supplies included or $10 use your own
IS IT PAINTING/IS IT DRAWING?
New art products have been recently introduced for our creative enjoyment. They are all water soluble and can be used as a drawing instrument, as a paint, or in combination. Here's an opportunity to explore Inktenses, aguasticks, watercolor pencils, soluble graphite, Graphatints, etc.
Thursday, December 18th, 6-9 P.M.
Facilitator: Gayle Swanbeck
Fee: $20 supplies Included.
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