Classes
TEXTILE LANDSCAPES
with ROBERTA BELL
Paint a landscape with fabrics. Using your reference photos and imagination you will be guided through creating a unique landscape using scraps of fabrics, yarns, and hand embroidery stitches. You will use different methods for adhering fabrics together, a variety of embroidery stitches. We will discuss landscape design methods. We will have a relaxing time stitching together and creating your own small landscape wall hanging. Ideally students know how to use a needle and thread before enrolling in this class.
Time: 10am - 4pm (2 day class– consecutive Saturdays on April 4 and April 11)
All materials will be provided. Optionally: If you would like, bring reference photos of a landscape you would like to make. There will be enough for everyone, but if you have your own tools you want to use (scissors, embroidery needles, thimble) please bring them along. If you have a special fabric you want to incorporate, bring that too.
ABOUT ROBERTA
Roberta Bell is a textile-focused mixed media artist. With a fantastical and hopeful perspective, she explores landscapes she treasures, which are in crisis due to climate change and other human-generated pressures. Using primarily reclaimed materials, she gives ‘second life’ to the beauty still living in them.
In her work she brings together both sides of the female and male-dominated forms of craft. Fabric and fiber are foundational in her work as she has used both since childhood, learning from her artistic mother, who taught her to sew, quilt, crochet, embroider, dye fabrics and weave. The love of wood comes from her father, who taught her and generations of teens the finer details of woodworking. She often uses this skill to display her work in old window frames or reclaimed wood pieces.
Watercolor and Acrylics
with Jack Loeb
Saturday, April 25 from 10am-12:30pm
Enjoy a morning exploring color and some new techniques in water media as Jack walks you through exercises in acrylic and watercolor painting. Jack will do two demonstrations and will bring a few extra supplies. Come and enjoy the fun!
The following are recommended if you have them:
- Watercolor or acrylic paints
- Brushes
- 140# Watercolor paper, which is a heavy paper. (can be purchased at Walmart, Dickblick.com, Hobby Lobby, Five Below and other art supply distributors.)
- Large water container
Optional items: watercolor pencils, acrylic, or India Inks.
Visit Dick Blick for additional information on art supplies - Tel: (800) 933-2542
Paper Beads
with Claudia Lee
Saturday, May 16th from 10AM – 12PM
Saturday, May 16th from 1PM – 3PM
Ages 12 and up
Get started making the most fun paper beads for all your arty projects. Claudia Lee will be sharing bead-making techniques that she has developed over the past five years. Learn how to add color and pattern to an assortment of papers to design beads that are uniquely your own, as well as a few extra surprises!
$55 per student (maximum of 8 students per class session)
Students Materials List
Self-healing mat
X-acto and spare blades
Scissors
Pencil
Ruler
Glue such as Aileen’s Tacky Glue or Elmer’s all-purpose
Glue brush
Small jar for water
Small spray bottle
Chisel tip sharpie
Optional: bring decorative papers or plain papers of your choosing
Claudia will have extras of all the above for anyone that might need something, as well as assorted papers for everyone to use.
Wild Fibers for Students
with Jennifer Folsom
Friday, May 22nd from 10AM – 12PM
Kids ages 9-18 (Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult)
Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring the art of transforming plant fibers into cordage using time-honored, traditional methods. Learn how to identify and harvest usable wild fibers, and discover how different plants yield cordage with unique strengths, textures, and uses.
Each participant will leave with their own cordage samples and the knowledge to
continue experimenting with wild fibers independently.
$25 per student. Space is limited - reserve your spot early.
All materials provided.
ABOUT JENNIFER
Jennifer Folsom is a fiber artist focused on hand processing, handspinning, and book arts. She works with fibers she grows, gathers, and sources, using both historical and contemporary processes.
Her work is driven by curiosity and the knowledge that develops through making.
Handspinning: How to Start
with Jennifer Folsom
Saturday, June 27th from 1PM – 4PM (Adults 18+)
This workshop offers a welcoming introduction to the timeless craft of handspinning. Explore the quiet transformation of fiber into yarn through twist, drafting, and plying while controlling thickness, consistency, and troubleshooting common issues. Students will be introduced to several beginner-friendly tools and traditional techniques, including drop spindles, improvised spindles, and thigh spinning.
By the end of the workshop, each participant will leave with handspun yarn samples and the foundational skills needed to continue spinning at home.
All materials and tools provided, but students can bring spinning equipment if they want.
HOMESCHOOL AND PRESCHOOL GROUP PIANO
Sheri Morris is now enrolling group piano classes and lessons.
Mini Musicians Preschool Program (45 minutes weekly)
Ages 3 - 5
- Piano readiness and music exploration
- Low-to-no home practice
Group limit - 4
Partner Piano Lessons (45 minutes weekly)
Ages 6 and up, two students learning together
Advantages over solo lessons:
- Peer motivation
- Ensemble playing opportunities
- Music theory games - better together
Group Piano Lessons (45 minutes weekly)
Ages 6 and up (bring your own keyboard)
- Note Reading
- Improvising
- Group playing
- Music games
Group limit - 6
Sheri is also offering private lessons.
For more information and to get signed up,
please contact Sheri Morris at songbirdsheri@comcast.net
About Sheri Morris:
Sheri has enjoyed teaching piano for many years. She loves discovering each student’s
personality and style, and tailoring their lessons to provide them the best music learning
experience. Professional development is an ongoing part of Sheri’s teaching career, which
provides her students with the highest quality education.
Students in Sheri’s studio have fun becoming:
- Music explorers, discoverers, and creators
- Skilled note readers
- Comfortable group players and performers
- Lifelong lovers of music
