Personal Enrichment

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Euro-Leather Bracelet

with Art Night Out

Apr

Next session: April 7th, 2020

$39 More Info

Make an ultra-hip Euro Leather bracelet with a huge selection in colors, textures, finishes and clasps. Learn how to incorporate different color meanings and symbolism into your bracelet for a personalized piece of stunning jewelry. Workshop fee includes all materials needed to make one basic bracelet with one charm.

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Learning to Sew Stitch by Stitch

with Jena Eaton-Burke

Apr

Next session: April 28th to May 26th, 2020

$59 More Info

Have you been too afraid to learn how to sew? Starting to sew is simple if you go stitch by stitch. Learning how to sew is a “hands on” and “learning by doing” experience. It does take practice to build up skill in order to do all the stitches correctly, but that’s the great part about learning with your new best friend the seam ripper. After you do a few of the projects, you will feel that you can do anything with sewing!

We will cover:

Sewing machine basics, care and use
Stitch basics and types
Fabric and fiber types
Marking and cutting fabric
Understanding sewing pattern markings
Sizing and fitting
Beginners’ Project: PJ pants
Finishing stitches and pressing
Picking out your next project

Supply list:

Sewing Machine (If unable to bring own machine please let us know, one can be supplied)

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The Book Inside You

with Toni Truesdale

Apr

Next session: April 29th to June 3rd, 2020

$90 More Info

Express your ideas into a book, novel, chapterbook, children’s book or journal. Learn to organize, brainstorm, web ideas, outline, make a storyboard and insert illustrations. Start putting your ideas into a concrete form with words and images. There will be individualized attention to each person’s project. Enjoy being creative, only you can tell your own story!

Pine Needle Basket

with Zach Rouda

Apr

Next session: April 30th, 2020

$35 More Info

Pine needles are beautiful, and strong! They can be coiled and sewn together to make jewelry, hats, lovely usable baskets and/or adorably tiny ones. Learn to identify, regeneratively gather, store, process, and weave with pine needles. We will cover the basics of coiled basketry, which is a global, ancient human skill, and create a wonderful pine-needle basket. Every participant will make a basket to take home.

Art & Beauty – Applied Art History

with Toni Truesdale

Apr

Next session: April 30th to June 4th, 2020

$90 More Info

Study important works of art across cultures. Critique and discuss design as well as aesthetic elements as a group then work on your own work interpreting the piece in wet or dry mediums.

Be Brilliant at Excel

with Andrew Schmid

Apr

Next session: April 30th to May 21st, 2020

$99 More Info

Is it time you learned how to use Microsoft Excel? Maybe you need to use spreadsheets for your business, to advance your career or you keep seeing Excel as a requirement in job listings. No matter why you want or need to learn Excel, this class will walk you through the basics from creating your first spreadsheet, populating it with data and then presenting that data in graphs, charts and so much more. This class is judgement-free so even if you have never seen Excel, we will get you up and running in no time. Students need to be 18 or older.