Upcoming Programs
We welcome your thoughts for future art programs. Art brings us together!
You can check out our previous programs, for an idea of the range of activities offered.
Mosaic Workshop with Dmitry Grudsky
Wednesday, April 24, 10 am
Mission Room
We are excited to announce that Dmitry Grudsky will be back for a second mosaic workshop. For those of you not familiar with Dmitry’s work he was our featured artist for our 2023 Gala with his painting “Steins Beer Garden” and he created our beautiful trash can in the courtyard. Dmitry lives locally, but was educated in Russia, receiving a Masters in Fine Arts from the Tashkent Art Institute in Uzbekistan, specializing in design of monumental and decorative art. His work has been exhibited at many places including de Young.
This workshop will be held in the Mission Room on Wednesday April 24 starting at 10 and should be over by 12. You might want to bring some special pottery, jewelry pieces, or stones with meaning to you. There will be an $8.00 materials fee, which participants can pay at the time of the workshop.
Creating from the Inside Out
Tuesday, May 21, 10 am
Mission Room
When the imagination is allowed to play without boundaries, it reflects itself into wonderful and numerous ways without being told how.
Karen Haughey has been an art teacher, artist, illustrator, and author for the past forty years.
She has been teaching this method of artful creativity effectively for the reluctant few, who claimed they couldn’t draw stick figures, but ended up surprising themselves during the process. It’s simply a creative class for the part of us that wants to explore outside the box.
Karen will begin this mini workshop by getting to know students by name, and anything else they would like to share about their personal and or professional journey.
She will then guide you through a relaxing meditation, or have you listen to a dramatic piece of classical music, such as Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner, for instance. The purpose is to activate your imagination through music before translating into color and form.
We’ll each share our experience of the meditation and how it felt, or possibly what we saw, while listening to the music.
The Signature exercise.
Write your full name in cursive, or print it in block letters on drawing paper. Turn it upside down.
Now, make a design out of your signature. Without logic.
The artist will supply paper. Please bring colored pencils (recommended) or watercolors if you prefer.
Advance registration is required. Registration will open on April 24.
Copyright & Artificial Intelligence (AI) as applied to Visual Art
This program (originally scheduled for March 21) has been rescheduled. We’ll post the new date at a later time.