Join Carol Agnew in this unique workshop where you will:
Paint, Sketch, or Build your own Positive Vanitas:
A positive Vanitas communicates gratitude, renewal, joy, or love using your very own personal items that evoke emotions and/or memories.
In this workshop, Carol Agnew will guide participants through creative interpretation—using their personal items to spark artistic exploration.
Her teaching encourages curiosity, experimentation, and confidence. A safe and creative space where each artist can discover their own voice.
Understanding Visual Grammar:
Learn how shapes, colors, symbolic items transmit messages to the viewer making the experience richer and more meaningful.
In this dynamic two-day workshop, you will explore ways to bring energy, movement, and expressive mark-making into your paintings. Together, we will embrace experimentation and cultivate a spirit of playful discovery. Through a series of guided exercises, you will create an expressive background. We will discuss composition and color theory. Develop your unique composition by working with a variety of water-soluble mediums and mark-making tools to expand your choices in how you approach your painting practice. We will create mood and atmosphere with oil paints.
Celebrate the winter season with versatile monoprint techniques on a Gelli plate to create a suite of holiday cards (whatever you celebrate). This hands-on workshop focuses on layering color, stenciling, masking, and simple collage so you can produce multiple unique cards inspired by snowy landscapes, seasonal motifs, neutral winter botanicals, and festive patterns suitable for any winter holiday. You’ll learn how to prepare the Gelli plate and select inks for clean prints, brayering fundamentals for even color and layered effects, how to use stencils and masks to create shapes, patterns, and focal images, and how to add texture with found objects, stamps, and simple mark-making.
Feeling stuck?
Curious about gelli plate printing but not sure where to start?
Or simply looking for a relaxed, social space to make art alongside other creative people?
This drop-in gelli plate studio is designed as a low-pressure, open-ended creative session — a place to break a creative slump, experiment with new techniques, revisit old ideas, or just show up and make something without expectations.
Each session offers a loose focus or prompt to spark ideas, but there’s no formal lesson and no requirement to follow along. You’re free to explore at your own pace, ask questions, share discoveries, or work quietly if that’s what you need that day.
Gelli plates, stencils, acrylic paints, and a selection of printing papers will be provided. You’re also very welcome to bring your own materials if there’s a specific technique, surface, or idea you’d like to explore.
This is a supportive, playful studio environment — suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike. Come to learn, experiment, reconnect with your creativity, or simply enjoy making art in good company.
The studio is open on the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month starting in June.
Do you enjoy poetry but aren’t confident in writing it yourself? Maybe you can be a poet but didn’t know it! Learn to peruse text in an intuitive way, create a poem, and decorate around the words. Or even black out the entire background! All supplies will be provided by the instructor. Teens and Adults welcome.
Discover the enchanting world of articulated puppetry and create your own expressive characters.
Supply List (Recycled content if possible):
Scraps of yarn, cereal boxes, larger tongue depressors, double sided tape or glue dots, ribbon, scissors, foil back 'jewels', hot glue and sticks, buttons, lightweight extension cords, scraps of faux fur, old jewelry, fabric scraps, trims, tassels, 'silk' flowers, clean sandwich size ziplock bags, White and colorful Model Magic Clay, Heavy bottom clean, dry wine or glass bottles - 2 per person.
Be prepared to share supplies for a rich collection of creative options. Some supplies will be provided.
Ages 14 & up
Class duration: 3 hours
Meet Linda Zolten-Wood and see what other classes she offers.
Learn how to make mini pieces of art using mixed media techniques on rescued playing cards. These are fun to do and also give you the opportunity to play with ideas on a small scale before launching into a larger piece. All supplies will be provided. Each student will leave with up to 6 cards (or as many as you can complete). Open to teenagers and adults.
Anna has been a practicing artist for over 30 years in many different mediums and has been teaching for 20.She is currently a member of Stella’s Art Gallery and is a Collaborative Mixed Media and Assemblage artist who creates as part of mother/daughter team.
Who is ready to play?
We will be creating DIY translucent stickers. Learn how to make them and use them as layers in your Art Journal. This is a fun and easy way to add to your fodder!
All supplies are provided by the instructor but feel free to bring anything of your own that you may want to include.
Teens and Adults welcome.
Envelope journals are a fun and easy way to make an art journal that can shape shift into a small scrapbook, a beautiful organization system, or gift wrap alternative for those boring gift cards. Each student will be making a book-style journal as well as an accordion journal and a folio, as well as getting an intro to mixed media 101. All supplies will be provided by instructor. Adults and teens are welcome.
Anna has been a practicing artist for over 30 years in many different mediums and has been teaching for 20. She is currently a member of Stella’s Art Gallery and is a Collaborative Mixed Media and Assemblage artist who creates as part of a mother/daughter team.
Tag Journals are great alternative to large art journal. If you are strapped for time, this is a great way to start small. It can accommodate drawing, painting, or mixed media. It can also be used for affirmations, goal keeping, or collecting memorable quotes. Students will leave with as many tags as they can complete during class. All supplies will be provided.
Anna has been a practicing artist for over 30 years in many different mediums and has been teaching for 20. She is currently a member of Stella’s Art Gallery and is a Collaborative Mixed Media and Assemblage artist who creates as part of mother/daughter team.
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