We will be making “studio shoes” in this workshop: one-piece, low-heeled slip-ons that provide inspiration and comfort while you work.

Our shoes will be made of leather and will have natural plantation crepe soling, suitable for wearing outside.

They will be made over plastic foot forms called “lasts”.

We will use the “stitch down” shoemaking process.

Students will have the opportunity to customize the design, ornamentation and color of your shoes, and the patterns you create can be used to make footwear for others.

The purpose of this workshop is to design and create a “faux” cake in Styrofoam, using all edible cake decorating materials to decorate.

Students will be guided on how to “carve” a cake, paint the fondant icing and many other tricks of the cake trade.

Various techniques will be demonstrated throughout the class, along with practical tips on making real cakes.

Students should have some knowledge of cake decorating.

“It’s not what you do to the stone, it is what the stone does to you” (Thoreau)

Learn to create small sculptures using alabaster, wonderstone or steatite stones.

When you sculpt the “natural way” you are listening both to yourself and to the stone.

You will become one with it, collaborating with the stone and letting it guide you.

The process is one of allowing a form to emerge, rather than forcing one on to the stone.

Sculpting the natural way is about listening to your intuition and connecting with the stone so that your efforts are a natural, “effortless action”. 

You will have a chance to work with more than one stone and may end up combining stone with wood.

This workshop is for beginners as well as those who have experience but would like the freedom to work in an intuitive, meditative way.

Learn the basics of encaustic technique with step-by-step demonstrations: fusing, transparency and glazes, layering, building texture, line edge, scraping, scribing, assemblage, monotypes, image transfer, combining oil and wax and dipping as well as archival techniques and methods of preservation.

Slide shows will illustrate historic and contemporary art usage.

In this workshop, students will learn the fundamentals of glass beadmaking.

Working at a torch, we will wind colorful molten glass around a steel mandrel to create a bead.

Shapes, textures, surface decorations and more will be explored as well as safety issues and studio set-up.

Basic bead stringing techniques will be explained, and if time permits, you will be able to create jewelry from your new creations.

This class takes you to a rich tradition of vessels as we explore their forms, surface and use.

You’ll learn how to design and create your own vessels, pots, beads and stoppers and then make them into wearable art pieces.

The elegant forms you create will become backdrops for sumptuous designs including dot patterns, raised florals, organic textures and other techniques.

We will review issues of torch use, flame, heat and gravity.

You will get hands-on practice, demonstrations and thorough explanations of processes, safety and health issues.

Troubleshooting common mistakes and difficulties will also be a part of the course.

This class will focus on flameworking soda-lime glass components to be encapsulated or added to clear glass.

The facilities will dictate small scale work.

Miniature paperweights or beadmaking are the areas we will explore.

This workshop will cover the basics and advanced techniques of sculpting nature inspired objects out of borosilicate glass rods.

Turtles, fish, orchids and roses are just some things that will be covered but it all depends on the individual’s skill level.

We will be using borosilicate glass rods of various thicknesses, frits, powders and tubing to create individual parts to be assembled into small or large scale creations.

This will be an intensive focus on the figure, balance and movement.

Three days of hard work drawing from a model with the aim of developing haptic perception and ways of expressing vitality and energy of the body.

Glass painting is an old tradition in art from Eastern Europe.

In this workshop participants will explore glass painting using oil paint mixed with resin so that it will not require kiln firing.

Topics to be covered will include: preparing the glass surface and the planning of the composition, procedures in glass painting and application of multimedia to finish the project – a self-contained, framed painting. Other applications of this technique will also be discussed.

Familiarity with basic drawing and painting is helpful, but not necessary.

Learn to use the unique qualities of transparent watercolor at lovely Peters Valley.

Explore stages of painting and techniques of wash, glaze, intermingling and wet/dry relationships.

Decipher the real with an abstract approach to color and design.

Step-by-step instruction is followed by painting in the field- meadows, trout streams, ghost towns and waterfalls of the Delaware Water Gap.

This class is for both beginners and artists who want to fine-tune their skills.

This workshop will provide an overview of concrete casting.

Basic one and two piece molds will be made from simple models using rubber and plaster.

Students will bring a model from which a rubber mold will be taken to cast the form in cement.

The basics of model preparation, mold rubbers, casting materials, fillers and various finishes for concrete will be introduced.

This workshop will focus on the found object as the major source of material used in the creation of art works.

The scope of objects that can be used range from the natural, to everyday consumer items, to esoteric industrial or architectural artifacts.

Participants are encouraged to bring a stash of stuff to be used or contributed to a materials exchange.

The making of unique works that reflect the different visions of those individuals participating will be encouraged.

This course will lead students through all the steps of building a stained glass panel.

Along the way, we’ll examine different approaches to designing for stained glass, with the emphasis on guiding and manipulating light as one of the most important components of the process.

Slide presentations on glass masterpieces ranging from medieval jewels to modern discoveries will help students to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for the medium as well as inspire them in their own work.

In this workshop each student will complete a basic marionette and controller.

With the knowledge learned in this course, each participant will be able to take marionette-making as far as their creativity permits!

Students and the instructor will spend the first half of each day drawing directly from the landscape.

We will explore composition, natural phenomena and observational drawing techniques.

This exploration will be used in the studio to complete large finished drawings.

Studio time will focus on a variety of media possibilities.

The purpose of this workshop is to design and create a “faux” cake in Styrofoam, using all edible cake decorating materials to decorate.

Students will be guided on how to “carve” a cake, paint the fondant icing and many other tricks of the cake trade.

Various techniques will be demonstrated throughout the class, along with practical tips on making real cakes.

Students should have some knowledge of cake decorating.